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I am new in docker, I want to build an image with Ubuntu 20.04 and bind9 service installation.

below is my code of docker file

FROM ubuntu:20.04

ENV TZ=Asia
RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezone

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    apt-utils \
    systemctl \
    bind9     

RUN /usr/sbin/named -g -c /etc/bind/named.conf -u bind

RUN systemctl restart bind9

I am getting an error like below

ERROR:systemctl:Unit bind9.service could not be found.

Can anyone help me, after installation of Bind9, why I am getting an error with above command?

Error comes with Docker only, if I run same command in Host environment which is Ubuntu 20.04 then it works fine.

Siddhpura Amit
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You generally cannot use service management commands (like service or systemctl, etc) in a container, because there is no service manager running.

Additionally, even if there were a service manager running, it wouldn't make any sense to interact with it in a RUN command: these commands are part of the image build process, and there are no persistent services running at this point. A RUN command runs in an isolated environment that is completely torn down when the RUN command completes.

If you want bind to start when you run a container using your image, you would need to place the appropriate bind command line into the CMD option. For example, the official bind9 image includes:

CMD ["/usr/sbin/named", "-g", "-c", "/etc/bind/named.conf", "-u", "bind"]

(See the Dockerfile for details)

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