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Docker Containers: Key Commands

Explore essential Docker container commands that help you start, stop, manage, and inspect containers. This lesson guides you through running containers interactively, detaching from processes, executing commands inside containers, and safely stopping or removing them. You will also understand how to use debugging commands and inspect container details to manage Docker containers confidently in real scenarios.

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Summary of the Docker container commands

  • docker run is the command to start new containers. We give it the name of an image, and it starts a container from it. For example, the docker run -it ubuntu bash command starts an interactive container from the Ubuntu image and runs the Bash shell.

  • Ctrl-PQ is how we detach from a container stopping the process ...