How to start Docker Container in Interactive mode

Docker is an open platform to develop, ship, and run containerized applications. It separates infra from application to ease application development and support anywhere development strategy. The below example shows how to start Docker Container in Interactive mode which allows us to run a Command inside the Container. Please note that the container exits as soon as the interactive command (env, free, df, bash) terminates. C:\>docker run -it ubuntu whoami root C:\>docker run -it ubuntu env PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin HOSTNAME=01b6a559b6bc TERM=xterm HOME=/root C:\>docker run -it ubuntu free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 2013940 513408 145780 1088 1354752 1341100 Swap: 1048572 0 1048572 C:\>docker run -it ubuntu df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on overlay 63G 2.4G 58G 4% / tmpfs 64M 0 64M 0% /dev tmpfs 984M 0 984M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup shm 64M 0 64M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 63G 2.4G 58G 4% /etc/hosts tmpfs 984M 0 984M 0% /proc/acpi tmpfs 984M 0 984M 0% /sys/firmware C:\>docker run -it ubuntu /bin/bash root@121e662e558b:/# ls bin boot dev etc home lib lib32 lib64 libx32 media mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var root@121e662e558b:/# exit exit C:\>docker container ls CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES C:\>