skarllot/centos repository overview

⁠CentOS Dockerfile

Dockerfile to build an updated and ready-to-use CentOS container image.

⁠Version

Current version: 6.5

⁠Installation

Pull the latest version of the image from the docker index. This is the recommended method of installation as it is easier to update image in the future.

docker pull skarllot/centos:latest

Or you can pull a especific version of centos by setting the version number.

docker pull skarllot/centos:6.5

Alternately you can build the image from source.

git clone https://github.com/skarllot/docker-centos.git
cd docker-centos
docker build -t="$USER/centos" .

⁠Quick Start

Run the centos image interactivelly

docker run -i -t -h myhost.example.com --name=myhost skarllot/centos:latest /bin/bash

You will redirected to the shell of new created container. When you exit the container will be stopped.

If you want to restart the container and attach to its shell, then do the following

docker start -i -a myhost