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Docker Quick Start Guide

By : Earl Waud
Book Image

Docker Quick Start Guide

By: Earl Waud

Overview of this book

Docker is an open source software platform that helps you with creating, deploying, and running your applications using containers. This book is your ideal introduction to Docker and containerization. You will learn how to set up a Docker development environment on a Linux, Mac, or Windows workstation, and learn your way around all the commands to run and manage your Docker images and containers. You will explore the Dockerfile and learn how to build your own enterprise-grade Docker images. Then you will learn about Docker networks, Docker swarm, and Docker volumes, and how to use these features with Docker stacks in order to define, deploy, and maintain highly-scalable, fault-tolerant multi-container applications. Finally, you will learn how to leverage Docker with Jenkins to automate the building of Docker images and the deployment of Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will be well prepared when it comes to using Docker for your next project.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

The Docker run command

Since we will be using the run command a lot, we should take a look at that now. You have already used the run command in its most basic form:

# new syntax
# Usage: docker container run [OPTIONS] IMAGE [COMMAND] [ARG...]
docker container run hello-world

# old syntax
docker run hello-world

This command tells Docker that you want to run a container based on the image described as hello-world. You may be asking yourself, did the hello-world container image get installed when I installed Docker? The answer is no. The docker run command will look at the local container image cache to see whether there is a container image that matches the description of the requested container. If there is, Docker will run the container from the cached image. If the desired container image is not found in the cache, Docker will reach out to a Docker registry to try to download the...