Docker on Cloud hosting

Question

Recently i created a linode account and installed docker in ubuntu 14.04LTS i installed an image, and ran a container, everything is working properly at the moment.

I wanted to do a scp from my local machine to linode directory and i did successfully like so.

scp file.txt root@ip:/path/to/directory

only my problem started when i realized docker container has its own root@hostname:/path/to/directory within the linode root@ip:/and that i did not know how to do a scp from my local machine directly to the container path, simply because i do not know the syntax and i'm not very experienced with the process.

I looked around asked Linode for support but there was very little they could assist me with.

I decided to test some of my theories such as: instead of scp directly to the docker container i would scp to linode scp file.txt root@ip:/home and from there i would do a docker cp file.txt <container-name>:/path/to/directory after i click enter, i get no response neither error nor success.

i'm a beginner on all of this so what am i missing? what am i not understanding?

Answer 1

Your docker cp aproach is right. And in fact it doesn't return any response. Your can check if the file was indeed copied using a docker exec containerid bash.

There is another way more complicated and not recommended. If you install openssh in your container and open another port lets say -p 2222:22 you can scp directly to the container.

Of course you can do it via the docker way. Declaring a volume, linking your host directory to your container directory: -v /path/to/directory:/path/to/directory. Then your scp to your host will work.

Regards