Docker How To Run A Container

Running a Docker container is really easy.

Use this command to run a container ( also creates it ):

docker run -it ubuntu	

Run a container detached:

docker run -tid ubuntu	

Use this to run a container and specify a command:

docker run -it ubuntu bash

You can specify a name for the container like this:

docker run -tid --name smelly-hippo ubuntu

Table of options:

-d	run detached in the background
-i	keep STDIN open
-t	allocate a pseudo-TTY