How to enter in a Docker container already running with a new TTY

Question

I have a container that is running the Apache service in the foreground. I would like to be able to access the container from another shell in order to \"poke around\" insid

Answer 1

First step get container id:

docker ps

This will show you something like

CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES

1170fe9e9460 localhost:5000/python:env-7e847468c4d73a0f35e9c5164046ad88 "./run_notebook.sh" 26 seconds ago Up 25 seconds 0.0.0.0:8989->9999/tcp SLURM_TASK-303337_0

1170fe9e9460 is the container id in this case.

Second, enter the docker :

docker exec -it [container_id] bash

so in the above case: docker exec -it 1170fe9e9460 bash