The Dev Perspective

Learn how to clone an app from GitHub, containerize it using Docker, and run it as a container.

Containers are all about applications. You’ll complete all of the following steps in this lesson:

  • Clone an app from a GitHub repo. We will use this repository to demonstrate the cloning process
  • Inspect the app’s Dockerfile
  • Containerize the app
  • Run the app as a container

Running commands

Run the following command to make a local clone of the repo. This will copy the application code to your machine so you can containerize it in a future step. You’ll need the git CLI for this to work.

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