1. Open your CLI terminal and start a container by using the [`docker run`](/reference/cli/docker/container/run/) command:

    ```console
    $ docker run -d -p 8080:80 docker/welcome-to-docker
    ```

    The output from this command is the full container ID. 

Congratulations! You just fired up your first container! 🎉

### View your running containers

You can verify if the container is up and running by using the [`docker ps`](/reference/cli/docker/container/ls/) command:

```console
docker ps
```

You will see output like the following:

```console
 CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                      COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS          PORTS                      NAMES
 a1f7a4bb3a27   docker/welcome-to-docker   "/docker-entrypoint.…"   11 seconds ago   Up 11 seconds   0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp       gracious_keldysh
```

This container runs a web server that displays a simple website. When working with more complex projects, you'll run different parts in different containers. For example, a different container for the `frontend`, `backend`, and `database`.

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### Access the frontend

When you launched the container, you exposed one of the container's ports onto your machine. Think of this as creating configuration to let you to connect through the isolated environment of the container. 

For this container, the frontend is accessible on port `8080`. To open the website, select the link in the **Port(s)** column of your container or visit [http://localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080) in your browser.

![Screenshot of the landing page of the Nginx web server, coming from the running container](/Users/baehyunsol/Documents/Rust/ragit/sample/docker/content/get-started/docker-concepts/the-basics/images/access-the-frontend.webp?border)

### Stop your container

The `docker/welcome-to-docker` container continues to run until you stop it. You can stop a container using the `docker stop` command.

1. Run `docker ps` to get the ID of the container

2. Provide the container ID or name to the [`docker stop`](/reference/cli/docker/container/stop/) command:

    ```console
    docker stop <the-container-id>
    ```

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> ```console
> docker stop a1f
> ```

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## Additional resources

The following links provide additional guidance into containers:

- [Running a container](/engine/containers/run/)
- [Overview of container](https://www.docker.com/resources/what-container/)
- [Why Docker?](https://www.docker.com/why-docker/)

## Next steps

Now that you have learned the basics of a Docker container, it's time to learn about Docker images.

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