Docker Command Guide: A Complete List of Essential Commands
In this tutorial you will be shown how to use Docker commands and if you need help Executing docker without using sudo privilege click here.
In this section below I will explain how to use docker commands. So, before going into these details, let’s take look at the syntax of ‘docker’ commands:
$ docker [options] [sub-commands] [arguments]
Now if you want to list all available sub-commands of docker, run:
$ dockerThere are many sub-commands and arguments that can follow after $docker. Below are some of them in the following sections of this tutorial.
Management Commands:
attach ## Attach local standard input, output, and error streams to a running container build ## Build an image from a Dockerfile commit ## Create a new image from a container's changes cp ## Copy files/folders between a container and the local filesystem create ## Create a new container diff ## Inspect changes to files or directories on a container's filesystem events ## Get real time events from the server exec ## Run a command in a running container export ## Export a container's filesystem as a tar archive history ## Show the history of an image images ## List images import ## Import the contents from a tarball to create a filesystem image info ## Display system-wide information inspect ## Return low-level information on Docker objects kill ## Kill one or more running containers load ## Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN login ## Log in to a Docker registry logout ## Log out from a Docker registry logs ## Fetch the logs of a container pause ## Pause all processes within one or more containers port ## List port mappings or a specific mapping for the container ps ## List containers pull ## Pull an image or a repository from a registry push ## Push an image or a repository to a registry rename ## Rename a container restart ## Restart one or more containers rm ## Remove one or more containers rmi ## Remove one or more images run ## Run a command in a new container save ## Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default) search ## Search the Docker Hub for images start ## Start one or more stopped containers stats ## Display a live stream of container(s) resource usage statistics stop ## Stop one or more running containers tag ## Create a tag TARGET_IMAGE that refers to SOURCE_IMAGE top ## Display the running processes of a container unpause ## Unpause all processes within one or more containers update ## Update configuration of one or more containers version ## Show the Docker version information wait ## Block until one or more containers stop, then print their exit codes Run 'docker COMMAND --help' for more information on a command.
Docker Commands
builder ## Manage builds config ## Manage Docker configs container ## Manage containers context ## Manage contexts engine ## Manage the docker engine image ## Manage images network ## Manage networks node ## Manage Swarm nodes plugin ## Manage plugins secret ## Manage Docker secrets service ## Manage services stack ## Manage Docker stacks swarm ## Manage Swarm system ## Manage Docker trust ## Manage trust on Docker images volume ## Manage volumes
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