Pulling an image from the public Docker registry

Now that we have installed Docker, we can use it to run a container from the public Docker registry. The public Docker registry contains thousands of ready to use images that cover hundreds of different packages, from databases, through to app servers. The public registry also includes official images from certain software providers, offering you a quick method to start developing with those packages, and the surety that the image is correct and secure.

For this recipe, we're going to use a combination of two different images to run a basic WordPress blog.

Getting ready

To use this recipe, you will need an Ubuntu 14.04 server with Docker installed.

How to do it…

This recipe will use some simple Docker ...

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