Manipulating Containers with the Docker Client

Creating and Running a Container from an image

# Create and Run the hello-world container
$ docker run hello-world

# Create and Run the override commands with the busybox container
$ docker run busybox echo hi there
$ docker run busybox echo bye there

Listing Running Containers

# List all running containers
$ docker ps

# Show all containers that have been created on our machine
$ docker ps --all

Docker Run = Docker Create + Docker Start

# Create docker container
$ docker create hello-world

# Start docker container
$ docker start <CONTAINER_ID>       # without logs
$ docker start -a <CONTAINER_ID>    # with logs

Removing Stopped Containers

$ docker system prune

Retrieving Log Outputs

# Retrieve Logs
$ docker logs <CONTAINER_ID>

Stop or Kill the running Containers

# Stop the running containers
$ docker stop <CONTAINER_ID>
$ docker kill <CONTAINER_ID>

Multi-Command Containers

# Execute an additional command in a container
$ docker exec -it <CONTAINER_ID> <COMMAND>

# Getting a command prompt in a container
$ docker run -it busybox sh
$ docker exec -it <CONTAINER_ID> sh