Docker commands with examples
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- Docker commands with examples
Docker commands with examples
Here we will see most common docker commands with example
1)Docker command to check the docker version
docker version
2)Docker command to check the detailed information on the running/stopped containers
docker info
3)How to download tomcat image from docker hub
docker pull <image name> Example : docker pull tomcat
4)How to verify downloaded docker images
docker images
5)How to view all the commands that were run on the image
docker history <image name> Example : docker history tomcat
6)How to remove docker image
docker rmi <image name> Example : docker rmi tomcat
7)How to search image with 20 search result
docker search <image name> | head -<result limit> Example : docker search ubuntu | head -20
8)Docker command to list all containers
docker ps
9)Docker command to identify the IP address of the running container
docker inspect <container name> Example : docker inspect nginxservice
10)Docker command to print the stats for a running container
docker stats <container name> Example : docker stats nginxservice
11)Docker command to pause the processes in a running container
docker pause <container name> Example : docker pause nginxservice
12)Docker command to unpause the process in a running container
docker unpause <container name> Example : docker unpause nginxservice
13)Docker command to kill the processes in a running container
docker kill <container name> Example : docker kill nginxservice
14)Docker command to start the container
docker start <container name> docker start nginxservice
15)Docker command to stop the container
docker stop <container name> docker stop nginxservice
16)Docker command to see container we just stopped
docker ps -a
17)Docker command to delete a container
docker rm <container name> docker rm nginxservice
18)Docker command to remove all stopped containers
docker container prune
19)Docker command to export container
docker export <container name> > <file name>.target Example : docker export nginxservice > test.tar
20)Docker command to import a container
docker import <tar file name> docker import abc.tar