Docker Basic Use Guidance

Once the above installation has completed, the container will continually run in the background regardless of whether someone is logged onto it or not. This is simply to protect the Greenplum software from issues that may arise from a system shutdown whilst it is still running.

If you do exit out of the container, you can simply re-access it via PowerShell with the following command:

docker exec -it ${CONTAINER_ID} bash

Should you need to get the CONTAINER_ID, the following will list all containers:

docker ps -a

To stop the container running, first run 'gpstop' as gpadmin from the container, exit out and then:

docker container stop ${CONTAINER_ID}

To re-start the container, run the following via PowerShell:

docker container start ${CONTAINER_ID}

Do note that this will again run the container in the background, and you will need to access it as above.