Managing containers

Let's try to run the Tomcat container as a background process.

  1. It is best practice to run a Docker container as a background process to avoid accidentally stopping containers from the terminal:
  2. Use the -d parameter:
                [root@localhost Desktop]# docker run -d tomcat
            68c6d1f7bc631613813ffb761cc833156a70e2063c2a743dd2729fe73b2873f9
  3. Verify the container you just created:
                [root@localhost Desktop]# docker ps
            CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED                             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
            68c6d1f7bc63        tomcat              "catalina.sh run"   15                         seconds ago      Up 11 seconds       8080/tcp                                    desperate_hypatia   
            You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
  4. Get the IP address of the ...

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