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Useful Docker shell aliases to speed up Development

Kevin Woblick on August 31, 2019

I work with Docker all the time. Ditching my MAMP stack for Docker was one of the most convenient and useful decisions I've ever made. If you are i...

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Daniel Albuschat • Aug 31 '19

Nice cheat-sheet, thanks!

I can add:

# Remove stopped containers, unused images, unused networks, etc.:
alias dsp="docker system prune"

I'd recommend starting all alias names with a common prefix, so that you can list the available aliases with tab-completion. Something uncommon like dk or something. Then you can do dk<TAB> and see all your aliases.

Abhinav Kulshreshtha • Aug 31 '19 • Edited

Good to know I am not the only one with this idea. I prefix all my tool related alias like fld_prune = docker system prune and flk_delete = kubectl delete. fl is my handler, fld_ are my docker alias, flk_ are kube related aliases. fly_ are youtube-dl related alias. Only tools related aliases are prefixed, common aliases are not prefixed so cls=clear and md=mkdir -p are unprefixed.

Michael Wellner • Aug 31 '19

I also have a cheatsheet and a respondiere tool with wich i could take a look at the cheatsheet via shell and execute commands instantly.
Also including some predefined databases.
Cheatsheet: github.com/m1well/env-setup/blob/m...
Tool: github.com/m1well/cheatsheet

ajboni • Aug 31 '19

I've been using something similar for kubernetes and it's a life changer. (github.com/ahmetb/kubectl-aliases)
maybe we should make a docker repo?

Rik van der Kemp • Aug 31 '19 • Edited

Cool! You can simplify your docker stop command like this (if you want)

docker stop $(docker ps -q)

edit: remove 'a' from the ps command

Kevin Woblick • Aug 31 '19

You can speed up this command by simply removing the a flag. It gets all Docker containers, even those which are stopped, which makes no sense for stopping all containers.