https://wiki.darrenwindle.co.uk/ 2026-05-06T02:00:29+00:00 https://wiki.darrenwindle.co.uk/ https://wiki.darrenwindle.co.uk/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2024-12-01T08:40:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.darrenwindle.co.uk/doku.php/docker:guides:naming_docker_containers?rev=1733042402&do=diff Naming Docker Containers When you create a Docker container, it is assigned a universally unique identifier (UUID). These are essential to avoid naming conflicts and promote automation without human intervention. They effectively identify containers to the host and network. However, they take more effort for humans to differentiate between, whether in the 64 character human-readable long display or the more frequently displayed 12 character short form, which might look something like text/html 2024-12-01T08:40:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.darrenwindle.co.uk/doku.php/docker:guides:using_docker?rev=1733042402&do=diff Using Docker Introduction Docker is a popular containerization tool used to provide software applications with a filesystem that contains everything they need to run. Using Docker containers ensures that the software will behave the same way, regardless of where it is deployed, because its run-time environment is ruthlessly consistent.