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Building the Node Server Image

To build the Node server image, be sure that Docker has been started (see the "Starting Docker" section of the project's documentation), then run the following command from the project's root:

docker build -t jcpinnovation/hello-world-node ./app

As per Docker's command line documentation the -t option specifies the tag name of the image.

Starting the Node Server

To start the Node server, run the following command:

docker run -d -t -p 49160:8080 --name node --link mongo:mongo jcpinnovation/hello-world-node

As per Docker's command line documentation:

• the -d option launches the container in detached mode (i.e. runs in the background)
• the -t option allocates a pseudo-tty
• the -p option publishes the container's port to the host (i.e. the container's port 8080 will be accessible via port 49160 of the host IP printed by the boot2docker ip command)
• the --link option link to another container (name:alias)
• the --name option assigns a name to the container