README.md

simple-docker-example

The docker image is defined in the Dockerfile. See comments in the Dockerfile for more information.

Build the docker image

the image name is "simple-python-app", the . means that it will look for the Dockerfile in the current directory

docker build -t simple-python-app .

Run the docker container

• mount - mount a local directory to the container. in this case the local directory is /Users//storage and the container directory is /storage

  • https://towardsai.net/p/l/a-guide-to-persistent-storage-in-docker
  • https://docs.docker.com/storage/bind-mounts/

• -p 8080:8080 - publish the container port 8080 to the host port 8080

  • https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/run/#publish

• -it - run the container in interactive mode

• --rm - remove the container when it exits

• --name simple-python-app - name the container simple-python-app

docker run --mount type=bind,source="/Users/<my-user-name>/storage",target=/storage -p 8080:8080 -it --rm --name simple-python-app simple-python-app