Docker (compose) send to daemon mode without restart

Question

Quite often, when I start my docker-composed app, I like to check that everything started correctly and everything's fine.

So I do docker-compose up, look at the logs, and then I have to do docker-compose stop, and docker-compose -d up.

Those are too many steps and having to stop the container means downtime on my server.

Ain't there a way to send docker to the background?

I tried Ctrl+Z but then if I try to exit the ssh session, I get There are stopped jobs., so that's not the correct way to do this.

I use docker-compose, but I'd be curious if this is possible with docker also.

Thanks

Chondriosome

I guess the is no other way at the moment. – Maurene

Do you reckon this would make sense? How about a feature request on github? – Chondriosome

Why not just start it in the background first with -d and use docker-compose logs to check the logs? – Allier

Indeed but since -d is not a default option, I tend to forget about it in the first place and then find myself stuck... – Chondriosome

Answer 1

After Ctrl+z, just use bg, the task will start running on background and you are safe to close the ssh session.

Sonority