Run a Docker image as a container

Question

After building a Docker image from a dockerfile, I see the image was built successfully, but what do I do with it? Shouldn\'t i be able to run it as a container

Answer 1

Do the following steps:

1. $ docker images

   You will get a list of all local Docker images with the tags specified.

2. $ docker run image_name:tag_name

   If you didn't specify tag_name it will automatically run an image with the 'latest' tag.

   Instead of image_name, you can also specify an image ID (no tag_name).