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Starting your app with ENTRYPOINT

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Starting your app with ENTRYPOINT

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- Okay, so we defined our base image and copied our mysterious app into this container image. There's only one thing left to do. We got to make this image run our app. Okay, we actually have a few other things to do after that but getting our image to run our app is pretty important. There are two Dockerfile commands that can execute stuff. Entrypoint and CMD. Let's go ahead and start with entrypoint. Entrypoint, like the name implies, configures the container image to run an application when a container is created from it. If you recall from earlier, our base image is configured to have containers run bash on startup. Consequently, containers created from our image will do the same thing. This will change once we define an entrypoint command, which we'll do in a few minutes, so get excited about that. Like the run command that we saw earlier, entrypoint takes two forms. The shell form and the exec form. They work exactly…

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