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Prathamesh More
Prathamesh More

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👩🏼‍💻 Docker for Beginners - By Beginner 👨🏼‍💻

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Hello world,

I have been learning Docker 🐳. I wanted to share some basics command to get started as a developer, I hope you know the basics about What is docker, containers or virtualization?

I am using Windows 10 2004 Update 🐱‍👓, this update comes with WSL2. In this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu on WSL2.

Information ℹ

Show all commands 



$ docker
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Docker

Docker version 



$ docker version
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Show information like number of containers 



$ docker info
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Containers ⛴

Create and run a container in foreground 



docker container run -it -p 80:80 nginx
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Run a container in foreground

Create and run a container in background 



$ docker container run -d -p 80:80 nginx
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Run in background

Running container

Running

Naming containers 



$ docker container run -d -p 80:80 --name nginx-proxy nginx
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List running containers 



$ docker container ls
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Running all containers

List all containers 



$ docker container ls -a
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Stop container 



$ docker container stop [ID]
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Stop container

Stop all containers 



$ docker stop $(docker ps -aq)
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Remove container (Can't remove running container) 



$ docker container rm [ID]
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Remove running container 



$ docker container rm -f [ID]
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Remove multiple containers 



$ docker container rm [ID] [ID] [ID]
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Remove all containers 



$ docker rm $(docker ps -aq)
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Images 📸

List the all images we have downloaded 



$ docker images
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All images

Pull new image from docker hub 



$ docker pull [IMAGE_NAME]
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Pull new image

Remove image or images 



$ docker image rm [IMAGE]
$ docker rmi $(docker images -a -q)
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Note: Any suggestion?

Happy coding

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt •

I regularly use docker system prune, but not really sure what it doesn't entail.

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Raphael Habereder • • Edited

It removes unused Containers, dangling Images and unused Networks.
Dangling Image is what it's called if you stop a docker pull midway. The Image is not finished loading and classified as "dangling". There are also those that you build and don't give a Name to. Those old images are the ones that are untagged and display as "none" on their name when you run 'docker images'.

There are two equivalent commands for Images and volumes too, docker image prune or docker volume prune, if you want to clean those up too by "unused" Status :)

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Anderson Brandão •

Nice article. I am really addicted to Docker. I'll make a contribution:

$docker exec -it IMAGEID bash

to enter in image.

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Prathamesh More •

Yes

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