Docker provides framework to isolate an application and its dependencies into self-contained unit called containers. These containers can be run anywhere. Containers can be considered as “light” version of virtual machines.

• Installation
  • Docker Architecture
  • Images
    • Viewing available local images
    • Downloading images from Docker Hub registry
    • Deleting an image
  • Containers
    • List containers
    • Running container in detached mode
    • Running container in interactive mode
    • SSH into docker container (when container is running in background)
    • Stopping container
    • Starting a stopped container
    • Deleting container
    • Running container with name and port forwarding
    • Sharing volume in container
    • Getting IP address of docker container
    • Container resource usage (CPU/RAM Usage)
    • Accessing host database from docker container
  • Images/container cleanup
    • List all exited containers
    • Remove stopped containers
    • Remove dangling/untagged images
  • GUI to manage docker containers

Installation

https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation

Docker Architecture

Images

Viewing available local images

docker image

Downloading images from Docker Hub registry

docker pull centos:6.8
docker pull ubuntu:14.04
docker pull centos # downloads latest image

Deleting an image

docker rmi <image_id>

Containers

List containers

# show running containers
docker ps

# show all containers (running and stopped)
docker ps -a

Running container in detached mode

In detached mode, container runs in background as a daemon.

# detached mode, with pseudo-tty. if pseudo-tty is not used, the container 
# will exit immediately after running as daemon
# with -d container keeps running in background as daemon
# -d Detached mode: Run container in the background
# -t Allocate a pseudo-tty

docker run -t -d centos:6.8

Running container in interactive mode

In interactive mode, containers run in foreground attached to local command line session.

# interactive mode
# run container, attached interactively to local command line session and run /bin/bash
# in this case, the container exits when we exit from /bin/bash

docker run -i -t centos:6.8 /bin/bash

SSH into docker container (when container is running in background)

docker exec -it <container id or name> bash

Stopping container

docker stop <container id or name>

Starting a stopped container

docker start <container id or name>

Deleting container

docker rm <container name or id>

Running container with name and port forwarding

docker run -t -d --name centos_container -p 80:80 centos:6.8

Sharing volume in container

# -v /host/directory:/container/directory 
docker run -i -t -v $(pwd):/opt centos:6.8 /bin/bash

Getting IP address of docker container

docker inspect <container_id> | grep IPAddress | cut -d '"' -f 4

Container resource usage (CPU/RAM usage)

docker stats

Accessing host database from a docker container

# 192.168.0.103 is host ip
docker run -t -d --add-host=docker:192.168.0.103 centos:6.8

 

Image/container cleanup

List all exited containers

docker ps -aq -f status=exited

Remove stopped containers

docker ps -aq --no-trunc | xargs docker rm

Remove dangling/untagged images

docker images -q --filter dangling=true | xargs docker rmi

GUI to manage docker containers

DocStation provides GUI for monitoring, configuring and managing services and containers.

 

 

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