The image has been created in the previous section, so now we are able to spin up the container. The command to start the container should look like this:
docker run -d --name tracked --net twitter -p 9090:9090 springfivebyexample/tracked_hashtag
Let's explain the instruction. -d tells the Docker engine to run the container in background mode or detached. The other important parameter is --net, which attaches the container to the desired network.
We can use the following command to tail the container logs at runtime:
docker logs tracked -f
This command is like the tail -f command on Linux, which looks at the last part of the log stream. We can remove the flag -f to see the last lines of the log. ...
