deploying a sample

Deploying a sample containing a static web-site and using nginx web-server

Following docker-curriculum tutorial and a web-server for a simple static web-site example.

Downloading and running the image

• Running (and downloading if necessary) $ docker run --rm prakhar1989/static-site

• Running with detached terminal $ docker run -d --rm prakhar1989/static-site

  • To stop this container, execute the command $ docker ps -a to get the container_id and $ docker rm container_id -f (-f to force)

Giving a name to the container

• Running detached giving a name $ docker run -d --name static-site prakhar1989/static-site

Exposing ports

• Running and exposing preconfigured ports $ docker run -d -P --name static-site prakhar1989/static-site

• Show exposed ports $ docker port static-site

• Forwarding requests of a specific port to a container's internal port $ docker run -p 8888:80 prakhar1989/static-site

  • Browse to http://127.0.0.1:8888 should show nginx welcome page

Stopping the container named static-site

• To stop this container $ docker stop static-site

  • A command to prune containers is necessary to clean the cache

• To stop this container cleaning the cache $ docker rm static-site -f