How to keep WIndows Container running?

Question

I need to keep my Windows Container up so I can run further commands on it using docker exec.

On Linux, I'd start it to run either sleep infinity, or tail -f /dev/null. Alternatively, I could borrow pause.c from Kubernetes.

What does this look like on Windows?

Answer 1

Use ping -t localhost will do it

Answer 2

A full run command would be:

docker run -d --name YourContainer mcr.microsoft.com/windows/nanoserver:1809 ping -t localhost

Note: Make sure 1809 is equal with your own windows version from [WIN]+[R] -> winver.

You should then be able to step into the running container instance with the name YourContainer:

docker exec -it YourContainer cmd