Change Entrypoint Command & Args

To change the start command for your dev container, you can use the following options:

• command to change the entrypoint
• args to change the arguments provided to the entrypoint command

devspace.yaml

dev:
  backend:
    imageSelector: ghcr.io/org/project/image
    devImage: ghcr.io/loft-sh/devspace-containers/python:3-alpine
    command: ["npm"]
    args: ["run", "start"]

The dev container shown in the example above would be started with the command npm run start.

Automatic Sleep Modification For Terminal

If you enable the terminal for this dev container, DevSpace will assume that you manually want to start your application using the terminal session and it automatically changes the container entrypoint to sleep:

devspace.yaml

dev:
  backend:
    imageSelector: ghcr.io/org/project/image
    devImage: ghcr.io/loft-sh/devspace-containers/python:3-alpine
    # Terminal is enabled
    terminal:
      command: ./devspace_start.sh
    # The following will automatically be added by DevSpace in-memory:
    # command: ["sleep"]
    # args: ["1000000000"]

To disable the automatic modifications of the entrypoint for terminal-enabled dev containers, add disableReplace: true under the terminal settings.

Config Reference

command required string[]

Command can be used to override the entrypoint of the container

args required string[]

Args can be used to override the args of the container