Managing containers

Let's try to run the Tomcat container as a background process.

1. It is best practice to run a Docker container as a background process to avoid accidentally stopping containers from the terminal:

2. Use the -d parameter:

               [root@localhost Desktop]# docker run -d tomcat
               68c6d1f7bc631613813ffb761cc833156a70e2063c2a743dd2729fe73b2873f9
   

3. Verify the container you just created:

               [root@localhost Desktop]# docker ps
               CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED                             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
               68c6d1f7bc63        tomcat              "catalina.sh run"   15                         seconds ago      Up 11 seconds       8080/tcp                                    desperate_hypatia   
               You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
   

4. Get the IP address of the container with the docker inspect command along with the container ID:

   [root@localhost Desktop...