# above command will list all the running containers # to see if our container is running try following command # and we are not attaching a container process output on our terminal # this is because it is running a container in the background # however you will see no other output regarding ping command # above command will output the same container id # above command will create a new container and # create a new container from busybox image Let's create a new container out of busybox docker image and add a ping command so that our container is constantly running. This image does nothing however we can run some linux command by adding an argument to docker command. # get the container id from output of the above commandĭocker start d95970936b265fa31b4f53025bf8fc762fcc23edb85ef23d32ab985c83617cb9Īlright now we have busy box image on our local machine. # create a new container from the this image If you do not want to use above command you can do the same thing by running following sets of command: Status: Downloaded newer image for busybox:latest # the container by showing process logs on our terminal # create a container out of this docker image and start
# if we do not have one download from the docker hub # check to see if we have local docker image Open your terminal window and run following command:
This image allow us to run some linux command inside the container. Let's create a new container from docker image called busybox.
How to create and run a container from docker image?įirst of all to learn about stopping or killing a running container we first need to create and then start a container. We will be using docker run command to create and start a container if you do not know about anything regarding this command please read below article first: In this tutorial we will learn about how we can stop or kill the running docker containers.