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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

You're reading from   Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Maximise productivity of your Windows 10 development machine with custom workflows and configurations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562448
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction, Installation, and Configuration
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Windows Subsystem for Linux FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring the Windows Subsystem for Linux 4. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Windows Terminal 5. Section 2:Windows and Linux – A Winning Combination
6. Chapter 4: Windows to Linux Interoperability 7. Chapter 5: Linux to Windows Interoperability 8. Chapter 6: Getting More from Windows Terminal 9. Chapter 7: Working with Containers in WSL 10. Chapter 8: Working with WSL Distros 11. Section 3: Developing with the Windows Subsystem for Linux
12. Chapter 9: Visual Studio Code and WSL 13. Chapter 10: Visual Studio Code and Containers 14. Chapter 11: Productivity Tips with Command-Line Tools 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Running a container with Docker

As was mentioned earlier, Docker gives us a standardized way of packaging up a container image. These container images can be shared through Docker registries, and Docker Hub (https://hub.docker.com/) is a commonly used registry for publicly available images. In this section, we will run a container with the nginx web server using the docker run -d --name docker-nginx -p 8080:80 nginx command as follows:

$ docker run -d --name docker-nginx -p 8080:80 nginx
Unable to find image 'nginx:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/nginx
8559a31e96f4: Already exists
1cf27aa8120b: Downloading [======================>                            ]  11.62MB/26.34MB
...

The last part of the command we just ran tells Docker what container image we want to run (nginx). This snippet of output shows...

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