Command-line tool

container

brew/container

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Create and run Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines

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At a glance

Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install container

Start the container services (required before running containers)

container system start

Run a container from an image interactively and remove it after it exits

container run --rm -it image sh

Run a container in the background with a name and a published port

container run -d --name container_name -p 8080:80 image

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