Mastering Docker - Fourth Edition

Chapter 4: Managing Containers

So far, we have been concentrating on how to build, store, and distribute our Docker images. Now we are going to look at how we can launch containers, and also how we can use the Docker command-line client to manage and interact with them.

We will be revisiting the commands we used in Chapter 1, Docker Overview, by going into a lot more detail, before delving deeper into the commands that are available. Once we are familiar with the container commands, we will look at Docker networks and Docker volumes.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

• Understanding Docker container commands
• Docker networking and volumes
• Docker Desktop Dashboard

Technical requirements

In this chapter, we will continue to use ...