Is it possible to start a shell session in a running container (without ssh)

Question

I was naively expecting this command to run a bash shell in a running container :

docker run \"id of running container\" /bin/bash

it look

Answer 1

first, get the container id of the desired container by

docker ps

you will get something like this:

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                  COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS                          PORTS                    NAMES
3ac548b6b315        frontend_react-web     "npm run start"     48 seconds ago      Up 47 seconds                   0.0.0.0:3000->3000/tcp   frontend_react-web_1

now copy this container id and run the following command:

docker exec -it container_id sh

docker exec -it 3ac548b6b315 sh