This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to easily run commands inside a running Docker container.

If you're looking to run NGINX as a Docker container, and expose it to your local network, here's how to do it.

If you want to run your first Docker Windows Server container, you need to first install the required roles and features, and then pull the container.

Once setup running Windows in a docker container allows for easy customization of resources allocated to the Windows virtual machine, including CPU cores, RAM, and disk size.

View the container status with the docker ps command. Execute a shell on the running container by replacing it with the ID that was returned: docker exec -it <CONTAINER ID> sh.

From there the guide touches on installing Docker within a Debian Linux system. But where it really shines is demonstrating how to use Docker Compose to configure a container and get it running.

But there are tools like docker-compose to automate this workflow, which are very powerful when running multiple containers/services.

If it’s running in WSL1, use the command wsl –set-version Ubuntu 2 to switch, and use wsl -l to check that it’s default. To set it as default type wsl -s Ubuntu.