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Hello World

Note

This example assumes you have Docker running in daemon mode. For more information please see Running The Examples

This is the most basic example available for using Docker.

Download the base container

# Download a base image
docker pull base

The base image is a minimal ubuntu based container, alternatively you can select busybox, a bare minimal linux system. The images are retrieved from the docker repository.

#run a simple echo command, that will echo hello world back to the console over standard out.
docker run base /bin/echo hello world

Explanation:

  • “docker run” run a command in a new container
  • “base” is the image we want to run the command inside of.
  • “/bin/echo” is the command we want to run in the container
  • “hello world” is the input for the echo command

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See the example in action

Continue to the Hello World Daemon example.