Navigating the Container File System

Interactive navigation

We’ve discussed a lot about reviewing Docker log files and inspecting containers. We’ve also looked at the use of the docker exec command, which aids in exploring a container in interactive mode. Let’s take it further by seeing how we can navigate containers when they’re running and when they’re not.

Interactive navigation of the Docker container file system has to do with exploring a container file system while the container is running.

We spin a container from an image, and then check the status of the container to check if it’s running already. Here’s how we can do that: