Docker container closes immediately after start - windows

Question

I want to setup learning development container for VSCode on my Windows 10 machine, but when I press "Open Folder in a Container" in VSCode I get an error:
[2020-11-24T10:21:22.963Z] [PID 8208]
[2020-11-24T10:21:23.070Z] [PID 8208] [8794 ms] Start: Run: docker ps -q -a --filter label=com.docker.compose.project=lecture2 --filter label=com.docker.compose.service=development
[2020-11-24T10:21:23.762Z] [PID 8208] [9486 ms] Start: Run: docker inspect --type container 03d485c0d0b0
[2020-11-24T10:21:24.630Z] [PID 8208] [10354 ms] Start: Inspecting container
[2020-11-24T10:21:24.631Z] [PID 8208] [10355 ms] Start: Run: docker inspect --type container 03d485c0d0b08ae5af7bc81124f9205d933ce77441829cfcf176a6dd767ab291
[2020-11-24T10:21:25.656Z] [PID 8208] [11380 ms] Start: Run: docker exec -i -u root -e VSCODE_REMOTE_CONTAINERS_SESSION=663b838f-c06e-4178-ae10-5f48efb218811606213272822 03d485c0d0b08ae5af7bc81124f9205d933ce77441829cfcf176a6dd767ab291 /bin/sh
[2020-11-24T10:21:25.678Z] [PID 8208] [11402 ms] Start: Run in container: uname -m
[2020-11-24T10:21:26.558Z] [PID 8208] [12282 ms] Start: Run in container: cat /etc/passwd
[2020-11-24T10:21:26.558Z] [PID 8208] [12282 ms] Stdin closed!
[2020-11-24T10:21:26.570Z] [PID 8208] [12294 ms] Shell server terminated (code: 1, signal: null)
Error response from daemon: Container 03d485c0d0b08ae5af7bc81124f9205d933ce77441829cfcf176a6dd767ab291 is not running
And if I just issue command:
docker-compose up
The container is started and stopped immediately without any errors in console.
My setting is like this:
Dockerfile:
FROM erlang:latest
WORKDIR /project
CMD tail -f /dev/null
docker-compose.yml:
version: '3'
services:
development:
build:
context: .
volumes:
- ./:/project
- build:/project/_build
- deps:/project/deps
volumes:
build:
deps:
.devcontainer/devcontainer.json:
{
"name": "Erlang dev container",
"service": "development",
"context": "..",
"dockerComposeFile": "..\\docker-compose.yml",
"workspaceFolder": "/project",
"settings": {
"terminal.integrated.shell.linux": "/bin/bash"
},
"extensions": []
}
Why doesn't it work?
PS.
I even changed my Dockerfile like this:
FROM erlang:latest
WORKDIR /project
COPY . .
And my docker-compose.yml to this:
version: '3'
services:
development:
build:
context: .
And it still doesn't work.
PS PS.
But! When after that I changed in devcontainer.json line:
"dockerComposeFile": "..\\docker-compose.yml",
to:
"dockerFile": "..\\Dockerfile",
Only then my folder was opened in the container by VSCode.
But I don't want to COPY . . inside my Dockerfile, I want to add my project's folder as a volume in my docker-compose.yml file. How do I manage this?

Answer 1

I solved my problem by adding tty:true to my docker-compose service definition, like this:
version: '3'
services:
development:
build:
context: .
tty: true
volumes:
- ./:/project