Web Server Example

See a Linux-based web server example using containers.

So far, we’ve seen how to start a simple container and interact with it. We’ve also seen how to stop, restart, and delete containers. Now let’s take a look at a Linux-based web server example.

In this example, we’ll start a new container from an image that runs a simple web server on port 8080.

Running the server

You can use the docker container stop and docker container rm commands to clean up any existing containers on your system. Then run the following command to start a new web server container.

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