Starting up

Run in foreground (pulls a container from a hub if there isn’t one available locally).

$ docker container run -it ruby

Run in background.

$ docker container run -d ruby

Map ports (host:container).

$ docker container run -d -p 80:80 nginx

Make ports available for localhost only(!)

$ docker container run -d -p 127.0.0.1:80:80 nginx

Naming a container.

$ docker container run -d -p 80:80 --name nginx-server nginx

Tell a container to automatically remove itself when stopped.

$ docker container run --rm -it ruby

Checking in on containers

List running containers

$ docker ps
$ docker container ls

Include stopped containers

$ docker container ls -a

Get logs (Use name or ID)

$ docker container logs <name-or-id>

List processes running in container

$ docker container top <name-or-id>

View info on container

$ docker container inspect <name>

Performance stats (cpu, mem, network, disk, etc)

$ docker container stats <name>

Create a container and bash into it

$ docker container run -it --name nginx-server nginx bash

Docker exec to bash into a running container

$ docker container exec -it postgres bash

Alpine does not iclude bash so use sh

$ docker container run -it alpine sh

Stop a container

$ docker container stop <container-id-or-name>

Stop all containers.

$ docker stop $(docker ps -aq)

Remove a container. Won’t stop a running container.

$ docker container rm <ID>