Docker Client Operations

External

• Docker Cheat Sheet: https://github.com/wsargent/docker-cheat-sheet

Internal

• Docker Concepts
• Docker Operations

Running the Client

On the Same Host as the Server

In order to connect to the docker server over the Unix socket, the user running the client must have permissions to do so:

[testuser@docker-server ~]$ ls -al /var/run/docker.sock
srw-rw----. 1 root docker 0 Apr 25 16:00 /var/run/docker.sock

One way to do that is to make the user a member of "docker" group:

usermod -G docker testuser

Commands

Queries

Look at container's logs logs

Changes introduced in the container's file system docker diff

Executions

exec

Other

import

load

update

Info

• Server and client version docker version
• System-wide info docker info
• Low-level information about a container: inspect

Image Operations

• Search Docker Hub or other registries: docker search
• List images in the local registry: docker images
• Remove images from the local registry: docker rmi
• Build an image: docker build
• Pull an image or a repository from a registry: docker pull
• Image history: docker history
• Export an image's filesystem into a TAR file: docker export

Explore an Image

If the image has a shell, it can be run in interactive mode and explored:

 docker run -it <image-id|name> sh

Otherwise it can be exported into a TAR file system with docker export and explored.

Container Lifecycle Operations

• List containers (running or otherwise): docker ps
• Create and run a new container: docker run
• Stop a running container: docker stop
• Start a previously stopped container: docker start
• Remove a container: docker rm
• Start a Container Automatically
• Attach to a Running Container

Scenarios

Docker Client Scenarios