Running WebApps in a Container

Just like with the whalesay/cowsay program, we can run web apps in a container. Let’s try with this static website example.

1. Pull the nginx image

> docker pull nginx

2. Run the nginx container

We can use -p to specify a custom port to connect to our container. In this case we are using port 8080.

> docker run -p 8080:80 nginx

We can see that the container is running when we go to http://localhost:8080 in the browser.

When you’re done, you can use Ctrl + C to stop the container.