AWS Automation Cookbook

Creating daemonized containers

1. Daemonized containers don't have an interactive session and are ideal for running applications and services in the background:

Syntax: docker run -it -d --name <cont_name> <image:tag> <entrypoint>

2. We've used the docker run command with the -d flag to tell Docker to detach the container to the background:

# docker run -it -d --name webapp ubuntu:latest /bin/bash

3. After that for troubleshooting, if you want to get inside the container, then run the following command: Syntax: docker attach <container ID/Name>

    # docker attach webapp

4. To stop a daemonized container we have to run the following command:

 # docker ...