How to manage services inside the container?

Systemctl/service commands are not working on a container which is built by using centos:centos7 image.

Can anybody help me here?

Using systemd in Docker is not really that straightforward.

However, according to the doc on the docker hub, systemd is now included in both the centos:7 and centos:latest base containers.

However, you will need to include text similar to the example Dockerfile :

FROM centos:7
ENV container docker
RUN (cd /lib/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/; for i in *; do [ $i == \
systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service ] || rm -f $i; done); \
rm -f /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/*;\
rm -f /etc/systemd/system/*.wants/*;\
rm -f /lib/systemd/system/local-fs.target.wants/*; \
rm -f /lib/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/*udev*; \
rm -f /lib/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/*initctl*; \
rm -f /lib/systemd/system/basic.target.wants/*;\
rm -f /lib/systemd/system/anaconda.target.wants/*;
VOLUME [ "/sys/fs/cgroup" ]
CMD ["/usr/sbin/init"]

I strongly recommend to read the full description tab documentation on the hub. This will help you make it run correctly.

StackExchange DevOps Q#8995, answer score: 2