Some useful docker Commands for handling images and containers

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With reference to the past lab sessions let us recap the below docker commands for reference.

Commands for images and containers handling:

1. How to list docker images:

$ sudo docker images

2. How to check the images status:

$ sudo docker ps -a

3. How to tag a docker image:

$ sudo docker tag <image id> < image name >

Ex: sudo docker tag 8de083612fef ubuntu-testbox1

4. How to list the container ids:

$ sudo docker pa -aq

5. How to remove all containers:

$ sudo docker containers prune

It removes all the containers on the current docker host machine

6. How to remove a docker image:

$sudo docker rmi image <image id>

Example:

sudo docker rmi image 6ad733544a63

7. How to run a dockerfile from the current directory:

$ sudo docker build -t ubuntu-vmbox .

Note: You need to make sure there is a dockerfile in the pwd.

8. How to run a container as interactive in a terminal mode:

$ sudo docker run -i -t ubuntu-vmbox /bin/bash

Note: Ubuntu-vmcbox is your image repository name.

9. How to see a history of a docker image:

$ sudo docker history hello-world

Note: hello-world is a docker image.

10. How to see the docker information:

$ sudo docker info

11. How to check the docker services status:

$ sudo service docker status

12. How to start a container :

$ sudo docker start  d10ad2bd62f7

13. How to stop a container :

$ sudo docker stop d10ad2bd62f7

14. How to attach  a container  into interactive terminal mode:
$ sudo docker attach d10ad2bd62f7

Note: The container comes into terminal interactive mode.

15. How to pause a container:
$ sudo docker pause 155f4b0764b1

16. How to unpause a container:
$ sudo docker unpause 155f4b0764b1

17. How to remove a single container:

$ sudo docker rm <container id>

Example: sudo docker rm 1dd55efde43f

Note: You can use prune command to remove all the containers as mentioned in the above questions.

 

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