NGINX Cookbook

How to do it...

We'll start by pulling down the latest image of Docker. While this is an optional step, it will allow you to see how Docker works in stages for the first time. To download the NGINX image (which for the officially packaged version is simply called nginx), run the following:

docker pull nginx  

This will then pull down a number of images, each of which will display a series of unique image IDs, like the ones displayed in this example:

Once our image has finished downloading, we can start creating our first container:

docker run --name nginx-basic -d -p 81:80 nginx  

If this works, you should get a single-line output, which will ...