The concept of storing things in containers goes way back to Genesis, but the use of containers for easily deploying applications is new. One of these new containerization platforms is Docker, and this blog post is a collection of setup and config notes I like to refer to when working with it.

Install

Windows 10

See https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/

Linux Ubuntu

Install Docker Engine and Docker Compose separately:
See https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
See https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Commands

Commands that can be run from Bash or PowerShell.

Help

<cmd> --help
<cmd> --version

Pull

Get the latest image of Ubuntu server off of Docker Hub
docker pull ubuntu:latest

Get the a specific version of Ubuntu server off of Docker Hub by tag name
docker pull ubuntu:18.04

Run

docker run hello-world
docker run --interactive --tty ubuntu bash
docker run --detach --publish 80:80 --name webserver nginx
docker run -p 8983:8983 -t solr

Name a container and run it in detached mode
docker run -p 8983:8983 -t solr --name solr -d

Images

List images
docker images
docker image ls

List images without a tag name
docker images -f “dangling=true” -q

Remove image
docker image rm wordpress:latest php:latest
docker image prune -a

Volumes

List volumes
docker volume

Remove volumes
docker volume prune

Networks

List networks
docker network

Remove networks
docker network prune

Containers

List containers
docker ps
docker container ls
docker container ls --all
docker ps -aq

Stop containers
docker container stop webserver
docker stop $(docker ps -aq)
sudo docker stop $(sudo docker ps -aq)

Remove containers
docker container rm webserver laughing_kowalevski relaxed_sammet
docker rmi -f c0fdfb66599d
docker rm $(docker ps -aq)
sudo docker rm $(sudo docker ps -aq)

Exec

Access bash shell of Docker app
docker exec -it appname bash

Build

See https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/build/

Commit

Commit a build to Docker Hub Repository
docker commit df75aa301d62 ubuntu:18.04vim

Compose

docker-compose up -d
docker-compose --verbose up