⭐ Docker Cheatsheet ⭐

This Repository is a guide to all the Docker CLI commands you need to use in case any of these situations arise

Index 📚

• Create Container ✨
• Start Container 🏃
• Stop Running 🔴
• Container Management 💼
• Logs 📃
• DOCKERFILE 🐳

Create Containers ✨

• Create container from image and start it

> docker container run <image name>

NOTE: Replace <image name> with required image name ignoring <>

• Create container from image but not run it

> docker container create <image name>

NOTE: Replace <image name> with required image name ignoring <>

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Start Container 🏃

• Start container which is currently not running

> docker container start <container id>

NOTE: Replace <container id> with target container id ignoring <>

• Start container which is currently not running and show output

> docker container start -a <container id>

NOTE: Replace <container id> with target container id ignoring <>

• Start container with shell access (ssh style)

> docker container run -it <container_id> sh

NOTE: Replace <container_id> with target container id ignoring <>

• Start container with port mapping

> docker container run -p <to_port:from_port> <image_name>

NOTE: Replace <image_name> with target image name and replace to_port with the port you want to access from your machine and replace from_port with the port in which the container uses
Ignore <>

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Stop Running Container 🔴

• Stop container after executing

> docker container stop <container id>

NOTE: Replace <container id> with target container id ignoring <>

• Intstantly terminate running container (force stop)

> docker container kill <container id>

NOTE: Replace <container id> with target container id ignoring <>

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Container Management 💼

• View list of all running containers

> docker container ls

NOTE: Add parameter -a to list all containers ever created

• Remove all stopped containers from list

> docker system prune

• Clear list

> docker system prune --all

• Remove specific container from list

> docker container rm <continer_id>

NOTE: Replace <container_id> with target container id ignoring <>
This might fail if the container is currently running. In that case view force delete command below

• Force delete container from list

> docker container rm -f <container_id>

NOTE: Replace <container_id> with target container id ignoring <>

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Logs 📃

• View specific container logs

> docker container logs <container id>

NOTE: Replace <container id> with target container id ignoring <>

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Dockerfile 🐳

• Set base image

FROM <image>

NOTE: Replace <image> with base image

• Set Author Name

MAINTAINER <name>

NOTE: Replace <name> with the name you want to set for the author field

• Execute shell command

RUN <command>

NOTE: Replace <command> with the command you want to execute on the containers shell

Click here to visit the repository containing language and framework specific templates for docker and docker compose

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