“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
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docker version
Most config values of engine
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docker info
docker ps #see al docker running
docker top <name> #see info about the container
Docker command line structure
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docker <command> (options) #old (still works)
docker <command> <sub-command> (options) #new
Deploy a nginx server
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docker container run --publish 80:80 nginx
List all container running
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docker container ls <options>
| Syntax | Description |
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| –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
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docker container stop <id>
Assign a name to a container
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docker container run --publish 80:80 --name webhost nginx
Show logs for a specific container
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docker container logs
Remove many containers together
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docker container rm <id> <id> <id> -f #use f for stop the container before