For steps that appear to hang for a bit of time after the step’s command
has completed, consider investigating how the CMD and ENTRYPOINT
instructions are provided to dependent containers.
At issue here is whether these instructions are provided in the `exec' or `shell' form (see Stack Overflow post for explanation of forms).
If a container’s instructions were provided in the shell form, a container may not exit gracefully upon completion of the step command and (as a result) would effectively hang until system timeouts take effect. Our recommendation is to use the exec form instead.
For an in depth discussion on why the shell form can be problematic,
please check out
this
blog post. We’ve also
prepared a
demonstration of the differing behavior between shell and exec. You can
git clone the repository and run it on your local machine via
jet steps.