appa-common-commands.adoc

Appendix A: Common Docker Commands

Here is the list of commonly used Docker commands:

Purpose	Command
Image
Build an image	docker image build --rm=true .
Install an image	docker image pull ${IMAGE}
List of installed images	docker image ls
List of installed images (detailed listing)	docker image ls --no-trunc
Remove an image	docker image rm ${IMAGE_ID}
Remove unused images	docker image prune
Remove all images	docker image rm $(docker image ls -aq)
Containers
Run a container	docker container run
List of running containers	docker container ls
List of all containers	docker container ls -a
Stop a container	docker container stop ${CID}
Stop all running containers	docker container stop $(docker container ls -q)
List all exited containers with status 1	docker container ls -a --filter "exited=1"
Remove a container	docker container rm ${CID}
Remove container by a regular expression	docker container ls -a | grep wildfly | awk '{print $1}' | xargs docker container rm -f
Remove all exited containers	docker container rm -f $(docker container ls -a | grep Exit | awk '{ print $1 }')
Remove all containers	docker container rm $(docker container ls -aq)
Find IP address of the container	docker container inspect --format '{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' ${CID}
Attach to a container	docker container attach ${CID}
Open a shell in to a container	docker container exec -it ${CID} bash
Get container id for an image by a regular expression	docker container ls | grep wildfly | awk '{print $1}'

Exit code status

The exit code from docker run gives information about why the container failed to run or why it exited. The complete list of code is listed:

https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/#exit-status

All other codes are the exit code of the command running in the container.