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Docker Quick Start Guide
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Docker Quick Start Guide

by Earl Waud
November 2018
Beginner
230 pages
6h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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The list container command

The indication of a running container can be shown using the following command:

# Usage: docker container ls [OPTIONS]docker container ls

This is the list containers command, and without any additional parameters, it will list the currently-running containers. What do I mean by currently running? A container is a special process running on the system, and like other processes on the system, a container can stop or exit. However, unlike other types of processes on your system, the default behavior for a container is to leave behind its read/write layer when it stops. This is because you can restart the container if desired, keeping the state data it had when it exited. As an example, imagine you run a container ...

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ISBN: 9781789347326