At this point, we are pretty familiar with getting containers running in Docker and how to monitor them from the cli or Docker desktop. Now we want to look at how to connect to a docker container while it is running. Connecting to a docker container is similar to how you would SSH into a remote machine to perform administrative tasks. With Docker, you don’t actually need SSH, as there are commands built into Docker that allow you to connect to a shell of running containers easily. Let’s see some ways to connect to a running Docker container now.

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