Go language-specific guide — Overview

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). In the previous module you created a Dockerfile for your example application and then you created your Docker image using the command docker build. Now that you have the image, you can run that image and see if your application is running correctly. A container is a normal operating system process except that this process is isolated and has its own file system, its own networking, and its own isolated process tree separate from the host. To run an image inside of a container, you use the docker run command. It requires one parameter and that's the image name. Start your image and make sure it's running correctly. Run the following command in your terminal. When you run this command, you’ll notice that you weren't returned to the command prompt. This is because your application is a REST server and will run in a loop waiting for incoming requests without returning control back to the Attribution: Adapted from Docker Documentation under Apache-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.