Docker Commands Cheatsheet

Jörn — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 07:13:29 +0000

Reminder: A Container is a running instance of an Image

Docker CLI commands

Command	Meaning
docker info	This command displays system wide information regarding the Docker installation
docker pull	download an image from dockerhub
docker images	show list of locally available docker image
docker start	start container
docker stop	stop container
docker run	pulls image, make a container from image and runs it
docker run -d	running in detached mode
docker run -p:	port binding e.g. -p6000:6379
docker ps	show a list of running containers
docker ps -a	show a list of running and stopped containers
docker logs	gets the log from the running container
docker exec -it /bin/bash	interactive terminal
docker rename	rename a container