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013a on Oct 9, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: 12 Factor CLI Apps

No, you start the docker container to run the CLI tool, because the tool is exported as the CMD for the image, like this one [1]

[1] https://hub.docker.com/r/mesosphere/aws-cli/

cpburns2009 on Oct 9, 2018 [–]

I had no idea you could run a Docker image as a command. I thought it simply allowed you to run light weight VMs running on the same kernel.

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