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Docker Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Docker Quick Start Guide Learn Docker like a boss, and finally own your applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789347326
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Earl Waud Earl Waud
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Preface 1. Setting up a Docker Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Learning Docker Commands 3. Creating Docker Images 4. Docker Volumes 5. Docker Swarm 6. Docker Networking 7. Docker Stacks 8. Docker and Jenkins 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

The CMD instruction

The CMD instruction is used to define the default action taken when containers are run from images built with their Dockerfile. While it is possible to include more than one CMD instruction in a Dockerfile, only the last one will be significant. Essentially, the final CMD instruction provides the default action for the image. This allows you to either override or use the CMD in the image used in the FROM instruction of your Dockerfile. Here is an example where a trivial Dockerfile does not contain a CMD instruction and relies on the one found in the ubuntu image used in the FROM instruction:

You can see from the output of the history command that the ubuntu image includes the CMD ["/bin/bash"] instruction. You will also see that our Dockerfile does not have its own CMD instruction. When we run the container, the default action is to run "/bin...

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