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Building Microservices with Go

You're reading from   Building Microservices with Go Develop seamless, efficient, and robust microservices with Go

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Published in Jul 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786468666
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nic Jackson Nic Jackson
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Running our first container


To validate Docker has been installed correctly, let's run our first container, hello-world is actually an image, an image is an immutable snapshot of a container. Once we start these with the following command they become containers, think of it like types and instances, a type defines fields and methods making up behavior. An instance is a living instantiation of this type, you can assign other types to the fields and call the methods to perform actions.

$ docker run --rm hello-world

The first thing you should see is:

Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/hello-world
c04b14da8d14: Pull complete 
Digest: sha256:0256e8a36e2070f7bf2d0b0763dbabdd67798512411de4cdcf9431a1feb60fd9
Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world:latest

When you execute a docker run the first thing the engine does is check to see if you have the image installed locally. If it doesn't then it connects to the default registry, in this case, https://hub...

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