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Merge pull request #6865 from SvenDowideit/remove-the-named-container-before-creating-a-new-one 

Don't make the user get a container already exists error
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James Turnbull 2014-07-08 14:42:17 -04:00
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@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ We can also use `docker inspect` to return the container's name.
> **Note:**
> Container names have to be unique. That means you can only call
> one container `web`. If you want to re-use a container name you must delete the
> old container with the `docker rm` command before you can create a new
> one container `web`. If you want to re-use a container name you must delete
> the old container with the `docker rm` command before you can create a new
> container with the same name. As an alternative you can use the `--rm`
> flag with the `docker run` command. This will delete the container
> immediately after it stops.
@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ container, this one a database.
Here we've created a new container called `db` using the `training/postgres`
image, which contains a PostgreSQL database.
We need to delete the `web` container we created previously so we can replace it
with a linked one:
$ docker rm -f web
Now let's create a new `web` container and link it with our `db` container.
$ sudo docker run -d -P --name web --link db:db training/webapp python app.py