How do I run a docker image as a container

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I am new to Docker. I have built a docker image from a dockerfile.The image was built successfully, but what do I do with it? Shouldn't it be able to run as a container?   Probably I am missing some very basic thing.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks.
Sep 7, 2018 in Docker by shubham
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retagged Sep 7, 2018 by shubham 1,288 views

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You can run an image depends on whether you gave the image a tag/name or not.

$ docker images
root@dockertest:~# docker images
REPOSITORY          TAG                 ID                  CREATED             SIZE
ubuntu              12.04               8dbd9e392a96        4 months ago        131.5 MB (virtual 131.5 MB)

With a name for e.g. -  in this case Ubuntu :

$ docker run -i -t ubuntu:12.04 /bin/bash

or you can run it by just using the ID:

$ docker run -i -t 8dbd9e392a96 /bin/bash

I hope it would be helpful for you.

answered Sep 7, 2018 by Damon Salvatore
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selected Dec 23, 2020 by MD
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You could probably follow these steps :

  1. $ docker images

    you will get list of all local docker images with tags specified.

  2. $ docker run image_name:tag_name

    If you didn't specify tag_name it will automatically run image with 'latest' tag.

    Instead of image_name you can also specify Image Id (no tag_name).

answered Aug 9, 2019 by Sirajul
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