Docker Advanced: Troubleshooting container exits

If you run a container using docker run and it immediately exits and every time you press the Start button in Docker Desktop it exits again, there is a problem.

The way to figure out what is wrong is to run docker logs, adding the name of the container at the end:

You can also click the Container name in Docker Desktop, and it will show a list of logs:

In this case after a quick Google search I realized I used a single quote in my CMD command.

Note that to fix problems like this, you need to remove the container, but also delete the image and rebuild it.

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Working with Images from the command line
2: Working with Containers from the command line
3: ▶︎ Troubleshooting container exits
4: How to commit changes to an image
5: Updating a deployed container
6: Accessing files outside a container
7: Dockerfile for Astro on Fly.io
8: Dockerfiles for Astro and Pocketbase on Railway

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