Painless Docker - 2nd Edition

Creating Containers

To create a container, simply run a Docker image using the docker create command.

docker create [OPTIONS] IMAGE [COMMAND] [ARG...]

A simple example to start using this command is to run:

docker create hello-world
# Or
docker container create hello-world

The hello-world image is a minimal image to test whether your Docker installation is working correctly and whether your network connection is fine for pulling images from Docker Hub.

To verify that the container has been created, we usually use the docker ps command to list all running containers, but since the hello-world container was not actually started (it was just created), we need to use the -a or --all flag to see all containers regardless of their state (running, stopped, created, etc):

docker ps -a
# or