Overview

Docker is an excellent containerised platform service suitable for large scale application deployment in cloud infrastructure. Docker has matured very well in recent years and is now used by some of the worlds most forward thinking companies when building and deploying their applications in their chosen infrastructure.

Get Docker

Download docker -> here

Run Instant Applications

Docker can pull and deploy applications from base images quickly and reliably.

In this case we will deploy an instance of nginx from the public Docker repository:

docker run -d -p 80:8080 --name webserver nginx

In this case we will deploy an instance of nginx from the public Docker repository:

you can see it working by hitting localhost on port 80 in your browser:

http://localhost:80

You can do the same with an instance of Drupal:

docker run --name some-drupal -p 80:80 -d drupal

Docker Images

See all local Docker images:

docker images

Name Conflicts

Be aware that docker need unique names when starting containers. If you get an error drop the name switch when running or choose a new name.

View Running Docker Images

docker ps

Stop Running Instances

After running docker ps look at the id on the left hand side of the result

docker stop [id]