SimpleContainers.md

Containers

You can use conainers in 3 different ways.

1. To run a single command
2. Running run as a shell
3. Running in the background

1. Running as a single command

docker container run [options] [image:version] [hostname]

2. Run as shell

docker container run --interactive --tty [options] [image:version] [shell]

• --interactive says you want an interactive session
• --tty allocates a pseudo-tty
• [shell] is the command to run your shell of choice

3. Run in background

docker container run --detach --name [name] [options] [image:version]

• --detach runs container in background
• --name [name] sets the name of the container

Although this contianer is running the background, you still have the ability push commands to the container or even open a shell docker exec -it [name] [command]

• to start a shell, make your command your prefered shell

Other Container Stuff

• List Running Containers docker container ls
• List all containers reguardless of status docker container ls -a
• Show logs docker container logs [name]
• Show running processes docker container top [name]