Start sshd automatically with docker container

Question

Given:

• container based on ubuntu:13.10
• installed ssh (via apt-get install ssh)

Problem: each when I start container I have to run sshd manually service ssh start

Tried: update-rc.d ssh defaults, but it does not helps.

Question: how to setup container to start sshd service automatically during container start?

Answer 1

Just try:

ENTRYPOINT service ssh restart && bash

in your dockerfile, it works fun for me!

more details here: How to automatically start a service when running a docker container?

Answer 2

Well, I used the following command to solve that

docker run -i -t  mycentos6 /bin/bash -c '/etc/init.d/sshd start && /bin/bash'

Answer 3

You can try a more elegant way to do that with phusion/baseimage-docker

https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker#readme

Answer 4

You can start ssh server when starting your container probably. Something like this:

docker run ubuntu /usr/sbin/sshd -D

Check out this official tutorial.