If you are using a Dockerfile, try: ENTRYPOINT [“tail”, “-f”, “/dev/null”] (Obviously this is for dev purposes only, you shouldn’t need to keep a container alive unless it’s running a process eg. nginx…)
The centos dockerfile has a default command bash. That means, when run in background (-d), the shell exits immediately. Update 2017 More recent versions of docker authorize to run a container both in detached mode and in foreground mode (-t, -i or -it) In that case, you don’t need any additional command and this is … Read more