Microservices with Docker on Microsoft Azure™ (includes Content Update Program)

Docker Container Basics

Now that we are connected to our Azure VM we can start exploring Docker.

Docker Info

To make sure that the extension has successfully installed Docker on the machine, we can check whether Docker is installed by typing

docker info

as shown in Figure 2.12.

FIGURE 2.12: Docker info output

Note

The following commands are executed on the Docker host via SSH. Therefore, they are exactly the same whether you are connecting to the Docker host from a Windows or Mac OS X machine.

The first two lines indicate that we do not ...