Once you’ve installed Docker, there a few basic features to know. In this post you’ll learn about running containers. If you haven’t gotten started with Docker yet, checkout this quick start guide.

The basics

You can run Docker containers with a command that takes the following form:

docker run [options] <image name> [command]

The problem

Tuples are immutable sequences in Python. One common way to create a tuple is to put comma separated values in between parentheses.

some_tuple = (1, 2, 3)

There are a few circumstances where you might prefer an immutable sequence over a mutable one, like a list. One reason they can be useful is for holding the arguments to a function.

Docker is a useful tool for creating small virtual machines called containers. Containers are instances of docker images, which are defined in a simple language. This language is usually written in a file named Dockerfile and it’s common practice to version control these files. When you run a container on your computer you get access to an entirely separate Linux environment. Better yet, you can run the same container on your laptop that runs in a battle-tested production environment, giving you the opportunity to develop and test in a realistic setting. This takes one major source of uncertainty out of the process of running your code on another machine.