Docker, Kitematic, running terminal commands - docker

I am using Docker with Kitematic and I have installed an image of Linux with Magento 2 on it.
It all works well, but Magento 2 requires that I run terminal commands for several things. How do I do this?
I know where the terminal is and there's Docker CLU, but when I go to the actual Magento directory, there's only the app but no bin/magento? So how does this work, or, in other words, where do I run the root commands from?

This has already been asked and answered. Just run
docker exec -it <container_id_or_name> /bin/bash
Check the link below.
How do I run a command on an already existing Docker container?

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Docker/Ansible: ERROR! The playbook could not be found

I'm quite new to software development and having some issues setting up a docker container.
I've pull the docker container and run it. Now I want to apply some configuration to my container with
docker run --rm --network="ansible_default" -v C:\folder\folder1\ansible\playbooks:/ansible/playbooks docker.<address>/ansible ansible-playbook -i host localhost.playbook.yml
But when I run the above code, it just gives an error:
ERROR the playbook localhost.playbook.yml does not appear to be a file
I am running on administration powershell and have cd into the folder that contains the yaml files. (so inside C:\folder\folder1\ansible\playbooks)
Do I need ansible installed? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT: The docker container exits with a code 2, I'm supposed to be able to access it via localhost:8080 but it's just a blank screen. Exited(2) I'm not too sure what it means, haven't found much success online.
Turns out the solution is to reinstall Docker.

How to open root#ad02e79cfb5b directory in windows terminal?

I have installed Linux subsystem and windows terminal. I ran image using docker (command of the form docker run -it ...... where "......" refers to further part of syntax).
After running of command finished, my current directory (which was PS C:\Users\krs>) changed to root#ad02e79cfb5b and i saw my project directory (say ProjectX) there (it was highlisghted in green) along with other directories like lib,tmp,bin (similar to linux directories in root folder).
However I don't know where root#ad02e79cfb5b:/# is present. I thought it might be root directory but when i open root directory there are folders like lib,tmp,bin but not ProjectX. I am also not able to open root#ad02e79cfb5b:/# using command cd root#ad02e79cfb5b:/#.
Where is root#ad02e79cfb5b:/# located ? How to access it again once I closed it?
When you run docker run with the -it flag it will run the container and give you a shell into it.
So the root#ad02e79cfb5b:/# you were seeing was the prompt inside the docker container (root is the user, ad02e79cfb5b is the host name and / means you are in the root folder).
To get back into it you first need to know if the container is still running. To achieve this run docker ps -a (not the thant the -a flag is important as without it you will only see running containers and not stopped ones).
If the container you ran is still running then note the id and run docker exec -it <container-id> /bin/bash to get a shell back to it.
If the container is stopped then I would suggest removing it docker rm <container-id> and re-running it (docker run -it ...).

How do I run a command line tool in a Rails app on a docker container?

so I have a working Rails project which is running in a docker container
I have a need to use this tool : https://github.com/google/oauth2l
I need to use this tool within my rails application, take it's output and use it in a post request I'm making via HTTParty.
I'm able to do this already but that's assuming I have oauth2l installed on my system. But since
I'm running my app in production in a container, I'm not sure what the best way to go about this is.
In the docs, there does seem to be a way to 'inject' it into my container but adding those lines to the Dockerfile is leading to syntax errors.
Any ideas on what I could do here?
As a general rule, I think you shouldn't run commands inside the docker container unless you really need it, the best approach is to install what you need while you are building your docker image (with only docker or docker-compose), but in case you really need to enter inside your container here is how I usually do it:
sudo -s
docker container ls (list all containers)
docker container -ti <id of the container> sh
or
docker exec -ti <id of the container> /bin/bash
The sudo -s sometimes is needed depending on how you configure the instance where your container is running, which means that all the commands you are running from now on are like admin. And you may need to execute sh or bash, again depending on your instance.
Hope that helps! đź‘Ť
Is better to type all the commands needed in the Dockerfile.
BUt, if you want to run a command within the container, try this:
docker exec -it my-app-web-1 rails db:create db:migrate
docker exec -it my-app-web-1 rails devise:install
These are some examples that you can do.

Docker Bind Mounts in WSL do not show files

Im trying to use the docker client from inside WSL, connecting to the docker engine on Windows. Ive exposed the docker engine on Windows on port 2375, and after setting the DOCKER_HOST environment variable in WSL, I can verify this works by running docker ps.
The problem comes when i attempt to mount directories into docker containers from WSL. For example:
I create a directory and file inside my home folder on WSL (mkdir ~/dockertest && touch ~/dockertest/example.txt)
ls ~/dockertest shows my file has been created
I now start a docker container, mounting my docker test folder (docker run -it --rm -v ~/dockertest:/data alpine ls /data)
I would expect to see 'example.txt' in the docker container, but this does not seem to be happening.
Any ideas what I might be missing?
There are great instructions for Docker setup in WSL at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-docker-for-windows-and-wsl-to-work-flawlessly#ensure-volume-mounts-work - solved most of my problems. The biggest trick for me was with bind-mounted directories; you have to use a path in WSL that the Docker daemon will be able to translate, for example /c/Users/rfay/myproject.
I don't think you need to change the mound point as the link suggests. Rather if you use pwd and sed in combination you should get the effect you need.
docker run -it -v $(pwd | sed 's/^\/mnt//'):/var/folder -w "/var/folder" alpine
pwd returns the working folder in the format '/mnt/c/code/folder'. Pipe this to sed and replace '/mnt' with empty string will leave you with a path such as '/c/code/folder' which is correct for docker for windows.
Anyone stumbling here over this issue follow this: Docker Desktop WSL2 Backend and make sure you are running the version 2 of the WSL in PowerShell:
> wsl -l -v
NAME STATE VERSION
* docker-desktop Running 2
Ubuntu Running 2
docker-desktop-data Running 2
If your Ubuntu VERSION doesn't say 2, you need to update it according to the guide above.
After that, you will be able to mount your Linux directory to the Docker Container directly like:
docker run -v ~/my-project:/sources <my-image>
Specific to WSL 1
Ran into the same issue. One thing to remember is that docker run command does not execute a container then and there on a command shell. It sends the run arguments to a docker daemon that does not interpret WSL path correctly. Hence, you need to pass Windows formatted path in quotes and with back slashes escaped
Your Windows path is
\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\username\dockertest
Docker command after escaping will probably be like
docker run -it --rm -v "\\\\wsl\$\\Ubuntu\\home\\username\\dockertest":/data alpine ls /data
try
docker -v /:{path} exe
Hope to help you.

How to use --volume option with Docker Toolbox on Windows?

How can I share a folder between my Windows files and a docker container, by mounting a volume with simple --volume command using Docker Toolbox on?
I'm using "Docker Quickstart Terminal" and when I try this:
winpty docker run -it --rm --volume /C/Users/myuser:/myuser ubuntu
I have this error:
Invalid value "C:\\Users\\myuser\\:\\myuser" for flag --volume: bad mount mode specified : \myuser
See 'docker run --help'.
Following this, I also tried
winpty docker run -it --rm --volume "//C/Users/myuser:/myuser" ubuntu
and got
Invalid value "\\\\C:\\Users\\myuser\\:\\myuser" for flag --volume: \myuser is not an absolute path
See 'docker run --help'.
This is an improvement of the selected answer because that answer is limited to c:\Users folder. If you want to create a volume using a directory outside of c:\Users this is an extension.
In windows 7, I used docker toolbox. It used Virtual Box.
Open virtual box
Select the machine (in my case default).
Right clicked and select settings option
Go to Shared Folders
Include a new machine folder.
For example, in my case I have included:
**Name**: c:\dev
**Path**: c/dev
Click and close
Open "Docker Quickstart Terminal" and restart the docker machine.
Use this command:
$ docker-machine restart
To verify that it worked, following these steps:
SSH to the docker machine.
Using this command:
$ docker-machine ssh
Go to the folder that you have shared/mounted.
In my case, I use this command
$ cd /c/dev
Check the user owner of the folder. You could use "ls -all" and verify that the owner will be "docker"
You will see something like this:
docker#default:/c/dev$ ls -all
total 92
drwxrwxrwx 1 docker staff 4096 Feb 23 14:16 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 Feb 24 09:01 ../
drwxrwxrwx 1 docker staff 4096 Jan 16 09:28 my_folder/
In that case, you will be able to create a volume for that folder.
You can use these commands:
docker create -v /c/dev/:/app/dev --name dev image
docker run -d -it --volumes-from dev image
or
docker run -d -it -v /c/dev/:/app/dev image
Both commands work for me. I hope this will be useful.
This is actually an issue of the project and there are 2 working workarounds:
Creating a data volume:
docker create -v //c/Users/myuser:/myuser --name data hello-world
winpty docker run -it --rm --volumes-from data ubuntu
SSHing directly in the docker host:
docker-machine ssh default
And from there doing a classic:
docker run -it --rm --volume /c/Users/myuser:/myuser ubuntu
If you are looking for the solution that will resolve all the Windows issues and make it work on the Windows OS in the same way as on Linux, then see below. I tested this and it works in all cases. I’m showing also how I get it (the steps and thinking process). I've also wrote an article about using Docker and dealing with with docker issues here.
Solution 1: Use VirtualBox (if you think it's not good idea see Solution 2 below)
Open VirtualBox (you have it already installed along with the docker tools)
Create virtual machine
(This is optional, you can skip it and forward ports from the VM) Create second ethernet card - bridged, this way it will receive IP address from your network (it will have IP like docker machine)
Install Ubuntu LTS which is older than 1 year
Install docker
Add shared directories to the virtual machine and automount your project directories (this way you have access to the project directory from Ubuntu) but still can work in Windows
Done
Bonus:
Everything is working the same way as on Linux
Pause/Unpause the dockerized environment whenever you want
Solution 2: Use VirtualBox (this is very similar to the solution 1 but it shows also the thinking process, which might be usefull when solving similar issues)
Read that somebody move the folders to /C/Users/Public and that works https://forums.docker.com/t/sharing-a-volume-on-windows-with-docker-toolbox/4953/2
Try it, realize that it doesn’t have much sense in your case.
Read entire page here https://github.com/docker/toolbox/issues/607 and try all solutions listed on page
Find this page (the one you are reading now) and try all the solutions from other comments
Find somewhere information that setting COMPOSE_CONVERT_WINDOWS_PATHS=1 environment variable might solve the issue.
Stop looking for the solution for few months
Go back and check the same links again
Cry deeply
Feel the enlightenment moment
Open VirtualBox (you have it already installed along with the docker tools)
Create virtual machine with second ethernet card - bridged, this way it will receive IP address from your network (it will have IP like docker machine)
Install Ubuntu LTS which is very recent (not older than few months)
Notice that the automounting is not really working and the integration is broken (like clipboard sharing etc.)
Delete virtual machine
Go out and have a drink
Rent expensive car and go with high speed on highway
Destroy the car and die
Respawn in front of your PC
Install Ubuntu LTS which is older than 1 year
Try to run docker
Notice it’s not installed
Install docker by apt-get install docker
Install suggested docker.io
Try to run docker-compose
Notice it’s not installed
apt get install docker-compose
Try to run your project with docker-compose
Notice that it’s old version
Check your power level (it should be over 9000)
Search how to install latest version of docker and find the official guide https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/
Uninstall the current docker-compose and docker.io
Install docker using the official guide https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/
Add shared directories to the virtual machine and automount your project directories (this way you have access to the project directory from Ubuntu, so you can run any docker command)
Done
As of August 2016 Docker for windows now uses hyper-v directly instead of virtualbox, so I think it is a little different. First share the drive in settings then use the C: drive letter format, but use forward slashes. For instance I created an H:\t\REDIS directory and was able to see it mounted on /data in the container with this command:
docker run -it --rm -v h:/t/REDIS:/data redis sh
The same format, using drive letter and a colon then forward slashes for the path separator worked both from windows command prompt and from git bash.
I found this question googling to find an answer, but I couldn't find anything that worked. Things would seem to work with no errors being thrown, but I just couldn't see the data on the host (or vice-versa). Finally I checked out the settings closely and tried the format they show:
So first, you have to share the whole drive to the docker vm in settings here, I think that gives the 'docker-machine' vm running in hyper-v access to that drive. Then you have to use the format shown there, which seems to only exist in this one image and in no documentation or questions I could find on the web:
docker run --rm -v c:/Users:/data alpine ls /data
Simply using double leading slashes worked for me on Windows 7:
docker run --rm -v //c/Users:/data alpine ls /data/
Taken from here: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/12590
Try this:
Open Docker Quickstart Terminal. If it is already open, run $ cd ~ to make sure you are in Windows user directory.
$ docker run -it -v /$(pwd)/ubuntu:/windows ubuntu
It will work if the error is due to typo. You will get an empty folder named ubuntu in your user directory. You will see this folder with the name windows in your ubuntu container.
For those using Virtual Box who prefer command-line approach
1) Make sure the docker-machine is not running
Docker Quickstart Terminal:
docker-machine stop
2) Create the sharing Windows <-> docker-machine
Windows command prompt:
(Modify following to fit your scenario. I feed my Apache httpd container from directory synced via Dropbox.)
set VBOX=D:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe
set VM_NAME=default
set NAME=c/htdocs
set HOSTPATH=%DROPBOX%\htdocs
"%VBOX%" sharedfolder add "%VM_NAME%" --name "%NAME%" --hostpath "%HOSTPATH%" --automount
3) Start the docker-machine and mount the volume in a new container
Docker Quickstart Terminal:
(Again, I am starting an Apache httpd container, hence that port exposing.)
docker-machine start
docker run -d --name my-apache-container-0 -p 80:80 -v /c/htdocs:/usr/local/apache2/htdocs my-apache-image:1.0
share folders virtualBox toolbox and windows 7 and nodejs image container
using...
Docker Quickstart Terminal [QST]
Windows Explorer [WE]
lets start...
[QST] open Docker Quickstart Terminal
[QST] stop virtual-machine
$ docker-machine stop
[WE] open a windows explorer
[WE] go to the virtualBox installation dir
[WE] open a cmd and execute...
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage sharedfolder add "default" --name
"/d/SVN_FOLDERS/X2R2_WP6/nodejs" --hostpath "\?\d:\SVN_FOLDERS\X2R2_WP6\nodejs" --automount
check in the oracle virtual machine, that the new shared folder has appeared
[QST] start virtual-machine
$ docker-machine start
[QST] run container nodejs
docker stop nodejs
docker rm nodejs
docker run -d -it --rm --name nodejs -v /d/SVN_FOLDERS/X2R2_WP6/nodejs:/usr/src/app -w /usr/src/app node2
[QST] open bash to the container
docker exec -i -t nodejs /bin/bash
[QST] execute dir and you will see the shared files
I solved it!
Add a volume:
docker run -d -v my-named-volume:C:\MyNamedVolume testimage:latest
Mount a host directory:
docker run -d -v C:\Temp\123:C:\My\Shared\Dir testimage:latest

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