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Docker on Windows
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The docker container run
command creates a container from an image and starts the application inside the container. It's actually equivalent to running two separate commands, docker container create
and docker container start
, which shows that containers can have different states. You can create a container without starting it, and you can pause, stop, and restart running containers. Containers can be in different states, and you can use them in different ways.
The dockeronwindows/ch02-powershell-env
image is an example of a packaged application that is meant to run in a container and perform a single task. The image is based on Microsoft Nano Server and is set up to run a simple PowerShell script when it starts, printing details about the current environment. Let's see what happens when I run a container directly from the image:
> docker container run dockeronwindows/ch02-powershell-env Name ...