docker

Manage Docker containers and images. Some subcommands such as run have their own usage documentation. More information: https://docs.docker.com/reference/cli/docker/.

• List all Docker containers (running and stopped):

docker ps --all

• Start a container from an image, with a custom name:

docker run --name container_name image

• Start or stop an existing container:

docker start|stop container_name

• Pull an image from a Docker registry:

docker pull image

• Display the list of already downloaded images:

docker images

• Open an [i]nteractive [t]ty with Bourne shell (sh) inside a running container:

docker exec -it container_name sh

• Remove stopped containers:

docker rm container1 container2 …

• Fetch and follow the logs of a container:

docker logs -f container_name