Getting a Shell to a Seq Container
Sometimes you'll need to get direct access to a Seq container to make configuration changes or diagnostics.
Getting a shell to a new container
Use the shell
command when starting a container to get a shell that can be used to run other server commands interactively:
docker run \
-it \
--rm \
datalust/seq shell
This will open a bash
shell in the container instead of attempting to start the Seq web server. You can then run Seq commands by calling seqsvr
:
seqsvr show-key
The shell
command can be especially useful if you've stopped your regular Seq container and can mount its /data
volume in the temporary container:
docker run \
-it \
--rm \
-v $SEQ_DATA:/data \
-e ACCEPT_EULA=Y \
datalust/seq shell
where $SEQ_DATA
is the path to your regular Seq container's data volume.
Getting a shell to a running container
To get a shell to an already running Seq container, you can use docker exec
:
docker exec \
-it \
$SEQ_CONTAINER \
/bin/bash
where $SEQ_CONTAINER
is the name or id of the container you'd like to attach a shell to.
Seq supports changes to configuration while it's running, but any changes won't be picked up by Seq until the container itself is restarted.
Using init scripts
Init Scripts can be used to run shell commands before Seq starts in environments where it's not possible to interact with the running container at all.
Updated almost 3 years ago