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command: docker create
short: Create a new container
long: |-
The `docker create` command creates a writeable container layer over the
specified image and prepares it for running the specified command. The
container ID is then printed to `STDOUT`. This is similar to `docker run -d`
except the container is never started. You can then use the
`docker start <container_id>` command to start the container at any point.
This is useful when you want to set up a container configuration ahead of time
so that it is ready to start when you need it. The initial status of the
new container is `created`.
Please see the [run command](run.md) section and the [Docker run reference](../run.md) for more details.
usage: docker create [OPTIONS] IMAGE [COMMAND] [ARG...]
pname: docker
plink: docker.yaml
options:
- option: add-host
value_type: list
description: Add a custom host-to-IP mapping (host:ip)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: attach
shorthand: a
value_type: list
description: Attach to STDIN, STDOUT or STDERR
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: blkio-weight
value_type: uint16
default_value: "0"
description: |
Block IO (relative weight), between 10 and 1000, or 0 to disable (default 0)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: blkio-weight-device
value_type: list
default_value: '[]'
description: Block IO weight (relative device weight)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: cap-add
value_type: list
description: Add Linux capabilities
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: cap-drop
value_type: list
description: Drop Linux capabilities
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: cgroup-parent
value_type: string
description: Optional parent cgroup for the container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: cidfile
value_type: string
description: Write the container ID to the file
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: cpu-count
value_type: int64
default_value: "0"
description: CPU count (Windows only)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
os_type: windows
- option: cpu-percent
value_type: int64
default_value: "0"
description: CPU percent (Windows only)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
os_type: windows
- option: cpu-period
value_type: int64
default_value: "0"
description: Limit CPU CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler) period
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: cpu-quota
value_type: int64
default_value: "0"
description: Limit CPU CFS (Completely Fair Scheduler) quota
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: cpu-rt-period
value_type: int64
default_value: "0"
description: Limit CPU real-time period in microseconds
deprecated: false
min_api_version: "1.25"
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: cpu-rt-runtime
value_type: int64
default_value: "0"
description: Limit CPU real-time runtime in microseconds
deprecated: false
min_api_version: "1.25"
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: cpu-shares
shorthand: c
value_type: int64
default_value: "0"
description: CPU shares (relative weight)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: cpus
value_type: decimal
description: Number of CPUs
deprecated: false
min_api_version: "1.25"
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: cpuset-cpus
value_type: string
description: CPUs in which to allow execution (0-3, 0,1)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: cpuset-mems
value_type: string
description: MEMs in which to allow execution (0-3, 0,1)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: device
value_type: list
description: Add a host device to the container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: device-cgroup-rule
value_type: list
description: Add a rule to the cgroup allowed devices list
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: device-read-bps
value_type: list
default_value: '[]'
description: Limit read rate (bytes per second) from a device
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: device-read-iops
value_type: list
default_value: '[]'
description: Limit read rate (IO per second) from a device
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: device-write-bps
value_type: list
default_value: '[]'
description: Limit write rate (bytes per second) to a device
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: device-write-iops
value_type: list
default_value: '[]'
description: Limit write rate (IO per second) to a device
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: disable-content-trust
value_type: bool
default_value: "true"
description: Skip image verification
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: dns
value_type: list
description: Set custom DNS servers
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: dns-opt
value_type: list
description: Set DNS options
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: dns-option
value_type: list
description: Set DNS options
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: dns-search
value_type: list
description: Set custom DNS search domains
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: domainname
value_type: string
description: Container NIS domain name
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: entrypoint
value_type: string
description: Overwrite the default ENTRYPOINT of the image
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: env
shorthand: e
value_type: list
description: Set environment variables
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: env-file
value_type: list
description: Read in a file of environment variables
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: expose
value_type: list
description: Expose a port or a range of ports
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: gpus
value_type: gpu-request
description: GPU devices to add to the container ('all' to pass all GPUs)
deprecated: false
min_api_version: "1.40"
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: group-add
value_type: list
description: Add additional groups to join
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: health-cmd
value_type: string
description: Command to run to check health
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: health-interval
value_type: duration
default_value: 0s
description: Time between running the check (ms|s|m|h) (default 0s)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: health-retries
value_type: int
default_value: "0"
description: Consecutive failures needed to report unhealthy
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: health-start-period
value_type: duration
default_value: 0s
description: |
Start period for the container to initialize before starting health-retries countdown (ms|s|m|h) (default 0s)
deprecated: false
min_api_version: "1.29"
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: health-timeout
value_type: duration
default_value: 0s
description: |
Maximum time to allow one check to run (ms|s|m|h) (default 0s)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: help
value_type: bool
default_value: "false"
description: Print usage
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: hostname
shorthand: h
value_type: string
description: Container host name
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: init
value_type: bool
default_value: "false"
description: |
Run an init inside the container that forwards signals and reaps processes
deprecated: false
min_api_version: "1.25"
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: interactive
shorthand: i
value_type: bool
default_value: "false"
description: Keep STDIN open even if not attached
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: io-maxbandwidth
value_type: bytes
default_value: "0"
description: |
Maximum IO bandwidth limit for the system drive (Windows only)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
os_type: windows
- option: io-maxiops
value_type: uint64
default_value: "0"
description: Maximum IOps limit for the system drive (Windows only)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
os_type: windows
- option: ip
value_type: string
description: IPv4 address (e.g., 172.30.100.104)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: ip6
value_type: string
description: IPv6 address (e.g., 2001:db8::33)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: ipc
value_type: string
description: IPC mode to use
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: isolation
value_type: string
description: Container isolation technology
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: kernel-memory
value_type: bytes
default_value: "0"
description: Kernel memory limit
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: label
shorthand: l
value_type: list
description: Set meta data on a container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: label-file
value_type: list
description: Read in a line delimited file of labels
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: link
value_type: list
description: Add link to another container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: link-local-ip
value_type: list
description: Container IPv4/IPv6 link-local addresses
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: log-driver
value_type: string
description: Logging driver for the container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: log-opt
value_type: list
description: Log driver options
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: mac-address
value_type: string
description: Container MAC address (e.g., 92:d0:c6:0a:29:33)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: memory
shorthand: m
value_type: bytes
default_value: "0"
description: Memory limit
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: memory-reservation
value_type: bytes
default_value: "0"
description: Memory soft limit
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: memory-swap
value_type: bytes
default_value: "0"
description: |
Swap limit equal to memory plus swap: '-1' to enable unlimited swap
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: memory-swappiness
value_type: int64
default_value: "-1"
description: Tune container memory swappiness (0 to 100)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: mount
value_type: mount
description: Attach a filesystem mount to the container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: name
value_type: string
description: Assign a name to the container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: net
value_type: network
description: Connect a container to a network
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: net-alias
value_type: list
description: Add network-scoped alias for the container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: network
value_type: network
description: Connect a container to a network
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: network-alias
value_type: list
description: Add network-scoped alias for the container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: no-healthcheck
value_type: bool
default_value: "false"
description: Disable any container-specified HEALTHCHECK
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: oom-kill-disable
value_type: bool
default_value: "false"
description: Disable OOM Killer
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: oom-score-adj
value_type: int
default_value: "0"
description: Tune host's OOM preferences (-1000 to 1000)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: pid
value_type: string
description: PID namespace to use
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: pids-limit
value_type: int64
default_value: "0"
description: Tune container pids limit (set -1 for unlimited)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: platform
value_type: string
description: Set platform if server is multi-platform capable
deprecated: false
min_api_version: "1.32"
experimental: true
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: privileged
value_type: bool
default_value: "false"
description: Give extended privileges to this container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: publish
shorthand: p
value_type: list
description: Publish a container's port(s) to the host
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: publish-all
shorthand: P
value_type: bool
default_value: "false"
description: Publish all exposed ports to random ports
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: read-only
value_type: bool
default_value: "false"
description: Mount the container's root filesystem as read only
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: restart
value_type: string
default_value: "no"
description: Restart policy to apply when a container exits
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: rm
value_type: bool
default_value: "false"
description: Automatically remove the container when it exits
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: runtime
value_type: string
description: Runtime to use for this container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: security-opt
value_type: list
description: Security Options
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: shm-size
value_type: bytes
default_value: "0"
description: Size of /dev/shm
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: stop-signal
value_type: string
default_value: SIGTERM
description: Signal to stop a container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: stop-timeout
value_type: int
default_value: "0"
description: Timeout (in seconds) to stop a container
deprecated: false
min_api_version: "1.25"
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: storage-opt
value_type: list
description: Storage driver options for the container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: sysctl
value_type: map
default_value: map[]
description: Sysctl options
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: tmpfs
value_type: list
description: Mount a tmpfs directory
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: tty
shorthand: t
value_type: bool
default_value: "false"
description: Allocate a pseudo-TTY
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: ulimit
value_type: ulimit
default_value: '[]'
description: Ulimit options
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: user
shorthand: u
value_type: string
description: 'Username or UID (format: <name|uid>[:<group|gid>])'
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: userns
value_type: string
description: User namespace to use
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: uts
value_type: string
description: UTS namespace to use
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: volume
shorthand: v
value_type: list
description: Bind mount a volume
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: volume-driver
value_type: string
description: Optional volume driver for the container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: volumes-from
value_type: list
description: Mount volumes from the specified container(s)
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
- option: workdir
shorthand: w
value_type: string
description: Working directory inside the container
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false
examples: |-
### Create and start a container
```bash
$ docker create -t -i fedora bash
6d8af538ec541dd581ebc2a24153a28329acb5268abe5ef868c1f1a261221752
$ docker start -a -i 6d8af538ec5
bash-4.2#
```
### Initialize volumes
As of v1.4.0 container volumes are initialized during the `docker create` phase
(i.e., `docker run` too). For example, this allows you to `create` the `data`
volume container, and then use it from another container:
```bash
$ docker create -v /data --name data ubuntu
240633dfbb98128fa77473d3d9018f6123b99c454b3251427ae190a7d951ad57
$ docker run --rm --volumes-from data ubuntu ls -la /data
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 5 04:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 48 root root 4096 Dec 5 04:11 ..
```
Similarly, `create` a host directory bind mounted volume container, which can
then be used from the subsequent container:
```bash
$ docker create -v /home/docker:/docker --name docker ubuntu
9aa88c08f319cd1e4515c3c46b0de7cc9aa75e878357b1e96f91e2c773029f03
$ docker run --rm --volumes-from docker ubuntu ls -la /docker
total 20
drwxr-sr-x 5 1000 staff 180 Dec 5 04:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 48 root root 4096 Dec 5 04:13 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 staff 3833 Dec 5 04:01 .ash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 staff 446 Nov 28 11:51 .ashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 staff 25 Dec 5 04:00 .gitconfig
drwxr-sr-x 3 1000 staff 60 Dec 1 03:28 .local
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 staff 920 Nov 28 11:51 .profile
drwx--S--- 2 1000 staff 460 Dec 5 00:51 .ssh
drwxr-xr-x 32 1000 staff 1140 Dec 5 04:01 docker
```
Set storage driver options per container.
```bash
$ docker create -it --storage-opt size=120G fedora /bin/bash
```
This (size) will allow to set the container rootfs size to 120G at creation time.
This option is only available for the `devicemapper`, `btrfs`, `overlay2`,
`windowsfilter` and `zfs` graph drivers.
For the `devicemapper`, `btrfs`, `windowsfilter` and `zfs` graph drivers,
user cannot pass a size less than the Default BaseFS Size.
For the `overlay2` storage driver, the size option is only available if the
backing fs is `xfs` and mounted with the `pquota` mount option.
Under these conditions, user can pass any size less than the backing fs size.
### Specify isolation technology for container (--isolation)
This option is useful in situations where you are running Docker containers on
Windows. The `--isolation=<value>` option sets a container's isolation
technology. On Linux, the only supported is the `default` option which uses
Linux namespaces. On Microsoft Windows, you can specify these values:
| Value | Description |
|-----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `default` | Use the value specified by the Docker daemon's `--exec-opt` . If the `daemon` does not specify an isolation technology, Microsoft Windows uses `process` as its default value if the
daemon is running on Windows server, or `hyperv` if running on Windows client. |
| `process` | Namespace isolation only. |
| `hyperv` | Hyper-V hypervisor partition-based isolation. |
Specifying the `--isolation` flag without a value is the same as setting `--isolation="default"`.
### Dealing with dynamically created devices (--device-cgroup-rule)
Devices available to a container are assigned at creation time. The
assigned devices will both be added to the cgroup.allow file and
created into the container once it is run. This poses a problem when
a new device needs to be added to running container.
One of the solution is to add a more permissive rule to a container
allowing it access to a wider range of devices. For example, supposing
our container needs access to a character device with major `42` and
any number of minor number (added as new devices appear), the
following rule would be added:
```
docker create --device-cgroup-rule='c 42:* rmw' -name my-container my-image
```
Then, a user could ask `udev` to execute a script that would `docker exec my-container mknod newDevX c 42 <minor>`
the required device when it is added.
NOTE: initially present devices still need to be explicitly added to
the create/run command
deprecated: false
experimental: false
experimentalcli: false
kubernetes: false
swarm: false