3: Running your first container

This chapter walks you through creating, stopping, restarting, and deleting your first container. It’s a really simple example and won’t take you long. However, it’s a great way to get some hands-on experience, and it’ll reinforce a lot of the things you learned in the previous chapters.

Later chapters will cover more interesting examples.

I’ve split the chapter as follows:

  • Pre-reqs
  • Running your first container
  • Managing containers with Docker Desktop

Pre-reqs

You’ll need a Docker environment to follow along. The previous chapter showed you how to install Docker Desktop and Multipass.

Open a new command line if you’re following along with Docker Desktop.

If you’re following along with Multipass, open a command ...

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