devops-exercises

Running Containers

Objective

Learn how to run, stop and remove containers

Requirements

Make sure Podman or Docker (or any other containers engine) is installed on your system

Instructions

  1. Run a container using the latest nginx image - podman container run nginx:latest
  2. List the containers to make sure the container is running - podman container ls
  3. Run another container but this time use ubuntu latest and attach to the terminal of the container - podman container run -it ubuntu:latest /bin/bash
  4. List again the containers. How many containers are running? - podman container ls -> 2
  5. Stop the containers - WARNING: the following will stop all the containers on the host: podman stop $(podman container ls -q) or for each container podman stop [container id/name]
  6. Remove the containers - WARNING: the following will remove other containers as well if such are running: podman rm $(podman container ls -q -a) or for each container podman rm [container id/name]