Docker run

Running docker container

• Run the following command to start an Ubuntu container

docker run ubuntu:latest echo "Welcome to Ubuntu"

• Run the following command to start an Ubuntu container with interactive bash shell

docker run --name samplecontainer -it ubuntu:latest /bin/bash

Find your containers

• Listing running containers

docker ps

• Listing all containers (runing/stopped)

docker ps -a

Listing docker images

docker images

Running container in detached Mode

• Run an alpine container in the background

docker run --name pingcontainer -d alpine:latest ping 127.0.0.1 -c 50

• Looking at the logs (stdout) of a container

docker logs -f pingcontainer

Running nginx container and access the service

docker run -d --name nginxalpine -p 7777:80 nginx:alpine

• Accessing the container service from the host system using mapped port

curl localhost:7777

• Accessing the container service using the container IP and container port

docker exec -it nginxalpine sh

ip addr

curl 172.17.0.2:80