Run a Service Inside a Container

Introduction

In this challenge, you will learn how to run a service inside a container. You will create a container image, start a container, and then run a service within the container. This challenge will help you understand the basic concepts of containerization and how to manage containers on a Linux system.

Skills Graph

Run a Service Inside a Container

Tasks

• Create a container image that runs a simple web server
• Start a container using the image you created
• Verify that the web server is running inside the container

Requirements

• Use the httpd package to create a web server container image
• The container image should be named my-web-server
• The web server should listen on port 80
• The web server should serve a simple "Hello, World!" HTML page
• The container should be started in the background and remain running

Example

After completing this challenge, you should be able to access the web server running inside the container by visiting http://localhost in your web browser. You should see the "Hello, World!" message displayed.

Summary

In this challenge, you learned how to run a service inside a container. You created a container image that runs a simple web server, started a container using the image, and verified that the web server was running correctly inside the container. This challenge helped you understand the basic concepts of containerization and how to manage containers on a Linux system.