How to run a Shiny docker container on Alpine Linux?

Question

I have Alpine Linux 2.6 64-bit installed with the latest version of docker. I pulled the rocker/shiny container to test Shiny. All is well but when I try to run the temporary container via:

docker run --rm -p 3838:3838 rocker/shiny

I get nothing. I verified the container exists via docker images . What am I missing?

Answer 1

Your container might be running in the background, you can use

docker ps 

If you start the container with --name shiny , you can give the running container a name. If you'd want to "log in" to the container you could start a shell inside of it by running something like:

docker exec -ti shiny /bin/sh

If you want to log into a running container which is not named explicitly you can also check out the name of your container by checking the output of

docker ps