Play With Nginx Server

Run a Container

To play around the Docker Container, we will use Nginx Server Image. We will pull it from the Docker Registry aka Docker Hub and run in our local machine.

Go to terminal and run 

docker container run --publish 80:80 nginx

In browser, if we go to http://localhost/, we should see the Nginx server is up and running.

With this command docker container run --publish 80:80 nginx,

To stop the container, we can simply try Ctrl + c.

We can run the container in background, by using detach flag.

docker container run --publish 80:80 --detach nginx

This will run the Docker container in background.

We can look all the containers list by

docker container ls

We can stop the container by 

docker container stop <container-id>

Now, if we look the container list by docker container ls, the list should be empty.

To observe all the stopped and running containers we can do,

docker container ls -a

In the last column of the list, we see random name of the Container. We can define the name while creating and running a container by,

docker container run --publish 80:80 --detach --name <container-name> nginx

Now, if we print the list of running container by docker container ls, we will notice the new container with our defined name.

We might want to look for the logs of the Docker container, by

docker container logs <container-name>

There are couple of options, while looking for logs,

We can remove docker containers by,

docker container rm <container-id-1> <container-id-2>

This will only remove the stopped container. To stop running containers, we can first stop the running container and then then remove. Also, we can use force flag to remove the running container by,

docker container rm -f <container-id>

This will remove the running container.

With Docker, in a matter a of time, we are able to run a Nginx server with default configuration. We are also able to look the logs and eventually stop the container.