“With Docker, developers can build any app in any language using any toolchain. “Dockerized” apps are completely portable and can run anywhere - colleagues” OS X and Windows laptops, QA servers running Ubuntu in the cloud, and production data center VMs running Red Hat.
Basic Commands
Verified cli can talk to engine
docker version
Most config values of engine
docker info
docker ps #see al docker running
docker top <name> #see info about the container
Docker command line structure
docker <command> (options) #old (still works)
docker <command> <sub-command> (options) #new
Deploy a nginx server
docker container run --publish 80:80 nginx
List all container running
docker container ls <options>
| Syntax | Description |
|---|---|
| –all, -a | Show all containers (default show running) |
| –filter, -f | Filter output based on conditions |
| –format | Pretty-print containers using Go templates |
| –last, -n | Show n last creates containers |
| –latest, -l | Show the latest created container |
| –no-trunc | Dont truncate output |
| –quiet, -q | Only display container ids |
| –size, -s | Display total file sizes |
Stop the container process but not remove it
docker container stop <id>
Assign a name to a container
docker container run --publish 80:80 --name webhost nginx
Show logs for a specific container
docker container logs
Remove many containers together
docker container rm <id> <id> <id> -f #use f for stop the container before