I just realized that my docker container did not have vim installed, and had to google some commands.
All you need to do is run the commands below in the container. These commands are mainly used in Ubuntu containers.
apt-get update
apt-get install vim
In case of CentOS, the commands below will work.
yum install vim
Lastly for Alpine:
apk update
apk add vim
If you want to directly write the commands in the Dockerfile:
FROM ubuntu
RUN ["apt-get", "update"]
RUN ["apt-get", "install", "-y", "vim"]
Top comments (2)
That's great you figured it out.
But most of the containers come with
vi
which is sufficient for basic editing.In my experience, most docker containers are intentionally stripped to their bare minimum and will not come with vim.
When you do install vi, note that you can use
vim-tiny
to reduce footprint.