Basic docker shell commands

docker_commands.sh

# Docker commands

# Show all containers (default shows just running)
docker ps -a 

# Start the docker service
systemctl start docker

# List images
docker images
docker image ls

# Stop docker containers
docker container stop [containers]

# This will remove all stopped containers.
docker container prune

# Remove one or more images
docker image rmi

# Force removal of the image
docker image rmi -f

# Remove one or more containers
docker image rm

# Force the removal of a running container (uses SIGKILL)
docker image rm -f

# Execute a command in a running container (interactive)
docker exec -it [CONTAINER] bash

# See logs from container with timestamps
docker logs [CONTAINER] --timestamps

# Copy file or folder from a docker container to the local file system.
docker cp <containerId>:/file/path/in/container/file /host/local/path/file

# docker-compose commands
# Info: Docker Compose is now in the Docker CLI, try `docker compose [commands]`

# Build or rebuild the docker-compose file
docker-compose build

# If you want to run your services in the background (detached)
docker-compose up -d

# If you want to run your services in the background (detached) and rebuild the idocker mages
docker-compose up -d --build --no-cache

# List containers
docker-compose ps

# Stop and remove containers, networks, images, and volumes
docker-compose down

# Below is an example of a command to clean all containers, images, volumes, networks, and undefined containers created with docker-compose.
docker-compose down --rmi all -v --remove-orphans

# Receive real time events from containers
docker-compose events

# Execute a command in a running container
docker-compose exec

# List images
docker-compose images

# View output from containers
docker-compose images


# Restart services
docker-compose restart

# Stop services
docker-compose stop

# Remove stopped containers
docker-compose rm

# Create and start containers
docker-compose up

# Create and start specific services in docker compose file, with specific env file
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml --env-file .env_prod up --force-recreate -d --build
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# Linux Docker commands

## Reload the systemctl configuration.
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

## Restart Docker.
 sudo systemctl restart docker.service