Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5

Building the application container

Now, it's time to check whether everything is working as we planned. Let's create the containers that we will use in our application. In Chapter 1,  Understanding the Core Concepts of Laravel 5, we already saw some very useful Docker commands, and now we are going to use them again. Let's see.

First, we will stop any container that is still running from the previous chapter, or on your machine.

Don't forget that you need to have your Docker Daemon up and running on your local machine.

1. Open your Terminal window and type the following command:

docker ps -a

If you are using Docker for the first time on your machine, you will see something similar to the following output:

Listed Docker containers

But, if ...