Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

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We can start a container using either of the following syntaxes:

    docker run [OPTIONS] IMAGE [COMMAND] [ARG...]
    docker container run [OPTIONS] IMAGE [COMMAND] [ARG...]

The docker container run command is recommended over docker run because, in version 1.13, Docker logically grouped container operations under the docker container management command, and so docker run might be obsolete in the future.

Here is an example of using the docker container run command:

    $ docker container run -i -t --name mycontainer ubuntu /bin/bash

By default, Docker picks the image with the latest tag:

• The -interactive or -i option starts the container in interactive mode by keeping the STDIN open
• The --tty or -t option allocates a pseudo-tty and ...