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Play With Docker

You can use the Play With Docker service to try out Docker without installing it on your computer.
You need to create an account on Docker Hub to use this service. You can Register here.

Please make sure that you don't upload or enter any sensitive data to this service.

Once you login, you can start a new instance by clicking on the Add New Instance button.

Play With Docker

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You can paste commands into the terminal by pressing Ctrl+Shift+V
Just in case you are wondering, the Ctrl+V shortcut doesn't work in this terminal.

Run a container and expose a port​

Type the following command into the terminal:

docker run -d -p 80:80 docker/getting-started:pwd

After the operation is complete, click on the OPEN PORT button (next to the IP) and enter 80 as the port number.

You should see the following page:

101 Tutorial

What you just did:

  • You downloaded the Docker image docker/getting-started:pwd from the Docker Hub
  • You started a container based on this image and exposed port 80 to the outside world
  • You opened the port 80 in your browser and saw the result (the 101 tutorial page)

Create a Test Suite and run it in a container​

Next, we will do something more interesting.
We will

  1. Create a Robot Framework test suite
  2. Run a container with Robot Framework and execute the test suite
  3. View the test results (html report) in another container

Create another new instance and run the following commands:

mkdir tests
mkdir reports
touch tests/mysuite.robot

Click on the EDITOR button, navigate to the tests folder and open the mysuite.robot file.

Editor

Copy the following content into the file:

*** Settings ***
Library   Browser
*** Test Cases ***
Example Test
    New Page    https://playwright.dev
    Get Text    h1    contains    Playwright
    Take Screenshot

Save the file and close the editor.

Run the following command to change the permissions of the tests and reports folders:

chmod -R 777 tests reports

Now, run the following commands:

docker run -t -v $(pwd)/tests:/opt/robotframework/tests -v $(pwd)/reports:/opt/robotframework/reports ppodgorsek/robot-framework

The Dockerimage ppodgorsek/robot-framework contains Robot Framework and the several other libraries.
It will automatically execute all the test suites in the /opt/robotframework/tests folder and generate a report in the /opt/robotframework/reports folder.

After the test execution is complete, we want to serve the log.html and report.html files in a web browser.

To do that, we will run another container with the nginx image.

docker run -d -p 80:80 -v $(pwd)/reports:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro nginx

Click on the OPEN PORT button and enter 80 as the port number.

A new tab will open in your browser and you get a 403 Forbidden error.
That error happens, because there is no index.html file in the reports folder.

However, if you add a /log.html at the end of the URL, you will see the log.html file.
If you add a /report.html at the end of the URL, you will see the report.html file.

The url should look like this:
http://ip<some-ip>-<some-identifier>-80.direct.labs.play-with-docker.com/log.html