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15 Docker Commands Beginners Should Know

0xkoji on August 01, 2019

In this post, basically, I don't put options. If you think this command is lacking something important, you will need to check Docker Doc(https:/...

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Henry Quinn • Aug 2 '19 • Edited

Brilliant. Definitely linking to this in a future article on containers, if that's cool.

Edit: Only thing I'd add would be exec. Folks who are getting into Docker likely have some experience on the command line, and being able to drop into a container's shell is hella helpful.

Joel Sugarman • Aug 7 '19

yeah i typically usedocker exec -it container_id/container_name bash/sh to get into existing, already running, containers

0xkoji • Aug 2 '19 • Edited

Thanks, Henry(@quinncuatro )!
I will add exec.

Antonio Savage • Aug 3 '19

I think the most user friendly and easiest to install GUI for managing docker is Portainer. Check it out if you want a quick GUI to manager everything in. Https://portainer.io

Can install it in two simple commands:

Linux Containers

$ docker volume create portainer_data
$ docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9000:9000 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer

Windows Containers

$ docker volume create portainer_data
$ docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9000:9000 --name portainer --restart always -v \\.\pipe\docker_engine:\\.\pipe\docker_engine -v portainer_data:C:\data portainer/portainer