5 Differences

CMD	Entrypoint
It can be replaced by command in docker run Ex:- [root@ip-172-31-17-58 sample3]# docker run -it test-sample1 /bin/bash root@373fb5615122:/# Although dockerfile had CMD /usr/sbin/apache2ctl -D FOREGROUND	If attempted to be replaced via docker run command it will instead be added as a run time argument to actual entry point command Ex:- [root@ip-172-31-17-58 sample3]# docker run test-sample3 /bin/bash Hello /bin/bash where dockerfile had entrypoint as below ENTRYPOINT [“/bin/echo”, “Hello”]
CMD will be included as a 2nd command to be executed along with Entrypoint For ex – See the Section 1 CMD with 1 Entrypoint	Entrypoint can not be overridden by CMD For ex – See the Section 1 CMD with 1 Entrypoint
CMD can also be overwritten by another CMD See section 2 CMD	Entrypoint can only be overwritten by another entrypoint See section 2 Entrypoints
CMD will only be PID 1 if Entrypoint not mentioned	The last entrypoint is the PID 1
Multiple params can not be added to it once image built	Multiple params for a running container can be added Same as 1st row example

2 CMD

Latest CMD command overrode the 1st CMD command

e.g. for dockerfile where we had highlighted lines:-

FROM ubuntu
MAINTAINER Rajesh Kumar << rajesh@scmgalaxy.com>>
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -y install tzdata
RUN apt-get install git -y && apt-get install -yq apache2
<strong>CMD echo "Hello world"
CMD ["/bin/echo", "Hello"]</strong>Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

output was

[root@ip-172-31-17-58 two-cmd]# docker run two-cmd
HelloCode language: CSS (css)

1 CMD with 1 Entrypoint

Entrypoint command was executed first along with CMD command when docker run invoked.

e.g. for dockerfile where we had highlighted lines:-

FROM ubuntu
MAINTAINER Rajesh Kumar << rajesh@scmgalaxy.com>>
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -y install tzdata
RUN apt-get install git -y && apt-get install -yq apache2
<strong>CMD echo "Hello world"
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/echo", "Hello"]</strong>Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

We had the container run with highlighted command where we can see both being executed

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED          STATUS                      PORTS     NAMES

[root@ip-172-31-17-58 centos]# docker ps -a --no-trunc | grep test-sample5
bb7c1f162da7e2a4a31af7d7f795ae982bb324210cfa0e8c2c2c5b52cc1f5675   test-sample5                                                              <strong>"/bin/echo Hello /bin/sh -c 'echo \"Hello world\"'"</strong>   About a minute ago   Exited (0) About a minute ago                                                                                  brave_bassiCode language: PHP (php)

2 Entrypoints

Last entrypoint command overrode the previous one

e.g. for dockerfile where we had highlighted lines:-

FROM ubuntu
MAINTAINER Rajesh Kumar << rajesh@scmgalaxy.com>>
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -y install tzdata
RUN apt-get install git -y && apt-get install -yq apache2
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/echo", "Hello world"]
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/echo", "Hello"]Code language: CSS (css)

[root@ip-172-31-17-58 2-entry]# docker run two-rp
HelloCode language: CSS (css)