return from docker-compose up in jenkins

Question

I have base image with Jboss copied on it. Jboss is started with a script and takes around 2 minutes.
In my Dockerfile I have created a command.

CMD start_deploy.sh && tail -F server.log

I do a tail to keep the container alive otherwise " docker-compose up " exits when script finishes and container stops.

The problem is when I do " docker-compose up " through Jenkins the build doesn't finishes because of tail and I couldn't start the next build.

If I do " docker-compose up -d " then next build starts too early and starts executing tests against the container which hasn't started yet.

Is there a way to return from docker-compose up when server has started completely.

Answer 1

Whenever you have chained commands or piped commands ( | ), it is easier to:

• easier wrap them in a script, and use that script in your CMD directive:

   CMD myscript 

• or wrap them in an sh -c command:

   sh -c 'start_deploy.sh && tail -F server.log' 

(but that last one depends on the ENTRYPOINT of the image.
A default ENTRYPOINT should allow this CMD to work)