In Docker, ENTRYPOINT and CMD are both used to define the default command that should be run when a container is started. However, they serve slightly different purposes.

The ENTRYPOINT instruction sets the command that will always be executed when the container starts, and it is usually used to set the main command for the image. This means that any arguments passed to the docker run command will be passed as arguments to the ENTRYPOINT command.

The CMD instruction, on the other hand, sets the default command and/or arguments for the container. This means that if no command is specified at runtime, the CMD instruction will be used as the command to run. Additionally, if a command is specified at runtime, it will override the CMD instruction.

In practice, you can think of ENTRYPOINT as defining the "entry point" of your container and CMD as providing default arguments to that entry point command.

To give an example, let's say you have a Docker image that runs a Python script. You could set the ENTRYPOINT to be python, and then use CMD to specify the script that should be run by default:

FROM python:3.9

WORKDIR /app

COPY . .

ENTRYPOINT ["python"]

CMD ["app.py"]

With this configuration, running docker run my-image would run the python app.py command, while running docker run my-image some_other_script.py would run python some_other_script.py.

Sure! Here's another example that demonstrates the difference between ENTRYPOINT and CMD:

FROM ubuntu:latest
COPY my-script.sh /usr/local/bin/
ENTRYPOINT ["my-script.sh"]
CMD ["arg1", "arg2"]

In this case, we're using ENTRYPOINT to specify that our container should always run the my-script.sh script. We're also using COPY to copy the script into the /usr/local/bin/ directory of the container.

We're then using CMD to specify that the script should be run with the arguments arg1 and arg2. So if we run the container with the command docker run my-image, it will run my-script.sh arg1 arg2.

If we want to pass different arguments to the script, we can do so by including them when we run the container. For example, running docker run my-image arg3 arg4 will run my-script.sh arg3 arg4.

So in summary, ENTRYPOINT specifies the command that should always be run, while CMD provides default arguments for that command.

 

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