Difference between Running and Starting a Docker container
While practicing docker, I use this command for starting up a container:
$ docker run a8asd8f9asdf0This brings a question to my mind, "what the use of docker start?"
$ docker start Here we have docker run vs start but to get a clear idea let's define both:
Start: This is used to startup a container that was previously stopped for whatever purpose.
for E.g. If you used docker stop CONTAINER_ID to stop a container,all you need to do is to use docker start CONTAINER_ID command to restart the previously stopped container and no data would be lost.
Run: This is used to create completely new containers using an image and then starting them up. You can create multiple replicas of the same image,
This is the command : docker run IMAGE_ID
Hope that helped:)
Note: Start will start any stopped containers. This includes freshly created containers. Run is a combination of creating and start. It creates the container and starts it.