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by corobo 3936 days ago
Docker for a command line tool? I thought docker was more for your public facing service sort of thing. Does it even have a full on terminal, being a container?

I'll be honest I've not been keeping up with Docker. It shows, right?
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xj9 3936 days ago
A Docker container is like chroot, but portable. So yes. You can do

    docker exec -it $NAME /bin/bash
to get a shell in a running container, or

    docker run --rm -it $NAME /bin/bash
to get a shell in a new container that will remove itself upon exit. Neither of these require your docker host to be local.
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jonesetc 3936 days ago
-t when running a docker container allocates a pseudo-tty.

Docker is useful for trying out cli interpreters like this, iojs, or any thing else of the sort. I wouldn't want to use docker if I planned on keeping it around to use more than a couple of times though.

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