How to deploy Hasura on ACI as long-running process

[parkerjgit]

Hi,

I have hasura running on a private ACI container instance inside a virtual net fronted by API Gateway that routes traffic using the containers IP. Cannot address the container using FQDN because ACI does not support FQDN for private containers. So when container restarts for whatever reason, it gets assigned a new IP, and API Gateway doesn't get updated, so application breaks. So, I need a way to keep the container running to prevent restarts.

Microsoft recommends using command like tail -f /dev/null to keep container alive, but not working. Trying things like:

resource "azurerm_container_group" "containers" {
  restart_policy        = "OnFailure"
  ...

  container {
    name = "hasura"
    image = "hasura/graphql-engine:v2.11.1"
    ...
    commands = [
      "/bin/sh", 
      "-c", 
      "nohup tail -f /dev/null &; graphql-engine serve --enable-console"
    ]
    ...
  }
}

But not having any luck...

[parkerjgit]

well, this works, but not sure how to test that this is doing what I want, ie preventing restarts.

commands = ["/bin/sh", "-c", "nohup graphql-engine serve --enable-console; tail -f /dev/null &"]

[adas98012]

If your use case demands a static IP address for a container, see if this helps:

https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/how-to-assign-a-static-ip-to-a-docker-container/