Running a container in detached mode
You should run your container in a detached mode. This ensures that the applications that are running within your container are able to run unattended, much in the same way as a daemonized service. In this example, we are going to take the container we created in the previous recipe, and run it as a detached process.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you will need an Ubuntu 14.04 server with Docker installed. You should also have completed the previous recipe, Creating a Dockerfile, or have a suitable image to use.
How to do it…
The following steps show you how to use the docker command to run a container in a detached fashion:
- Running a container in detached mode is relatively straight forward. On your Docker host, ...
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