Kicking the tires of Docker

With the setup accomplished, we can use the local Docker instance to create Docker containers, run a few commands, and, in general, learn how to use this amazing system.

As in so many software journeys, this one starts with saying Hello World:

$ docker run hello-world  Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally latest: Pulling from library/hello-world ca4f61b1923c: Pull complete  Digest: sha256:66ef312bbac49c39a89aa9bcc3cb4f3c9e7de3788c944158df3ee0176d32b751 Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world:latest  Hello from Docker! This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.  To generate this message, Docker took the following steps:  1. The Docker client contacted the Docker ...

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