How to automate process of starting app inside docker container

Question

I am working on an Flask REST API developed with Docker and I want to automate the whole process by which I start the application.

The whole starting process involves (on Windows):

1. open cmd prompt

2. enter docker exec -it container_name bash

3. inside the container, run python main.py

Is there a way to create a bash script to run these 3 commands and keep the container window open so I can see the API logs (and run other commands)?

Thank you.

Answer 1

you could use something like this

#!/usr/bin/env bash
docker run -it container_name python:3 python main.py

Answer 2

你可以试试这个：

docker exec -it container_name bash -c 'python main.py; read -p"Enter to close window"'