Docker common commands list with examples

Docker is an open source application container engine that allows developers to package their applications and dependencies into a portable image, then publish it to any popular Linux or Windows machine, or implement virtualization. Containers are fully sandboxed and there will be no interfaces between them.

Docker includes three basic concepts:

• Repository
• Image
• Container

Docker uses a client-server (C/S) architecture pattern and uses remote APIs to manage and create Docker containers.

This article shares common commands of docker and examples.

Image Repository Commands

• pull
          Pull an image or a repository from a registry
• push
          Push an image or a repository to a registry
• search
        Search the Docker Hub for images

Local Image Manage Commands

• images
        List images
• rmi
       Remove one or more images
• tag
       Create a tag TARGET_IMAGE that refers to SOURCE_IMAGE
• build
       Build an image from a Dockerfile
• commit
        Create a new image from a container’s changes
• history
      Show the history of an image
• import
        Import the contents from a tarball to create a filesystem image
• save
        Save one or more images to a tar archive
• inspect
      Display detailed information on one or more images

Container  Manage Commands

• ps
        List containers
• top
       Display the running processes of a container
• attach
        Attach local standard input, output, and error streams to a running container
• port
        List port mappings or a specific mapping for the container
• wait
        Block until one or more containers stop, then print their exit codes
• logs
        Fetch the logs of a container
• export
        Export a container’s filesystem as a tar archive
• port
        List port mappings or a specific mapping for the container

Container Lifecycle Manage Commands

• create
        Create a new container
• rename
        Rename a container
• run
       Run a command in a new container
• exec
        Run a command in a running container
• start
        Start one or more stopped containers
• restart
      Restart one or more containers
• stop
         Stop one or more running containers
• stats
        Display a live stream of container(s) resource usage statistics
• kill
          Kill one or more running containers
• rm
          Remove one or more containers
• unpause
      Unpause all processes within one or more containers
• update
        Update configuration of one or more containers

Docker Management Commands

• builder
      Manage builds
• checkpoint
    Manage checkpoints
• config
        Manage Docker configs
• container
    Manage containers
• context
      Manage contexts
• image
        Manage images
• network
      Manage networks
• node
          Manage Swarm nodes
• plugin
        Manage plugins
• secret
        Manage Docker secrets
• service
      Manage services
• stack
        Manage Docker stacks
• swarm
        Manage Swarm
• system
        Manage Docker
• trust
        Manage trust on Docker images
• volume
        Manage volumes

Run ‘docker COMMAND –help‘ for more information on a command.