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Mohsen Esmailpour
Mohsen Esmailpour

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Some Docker commands make your life easier

In this post, I show some useful docker commands that you may be less familiar with them and they make your life easier as a developer. Lets begin with build command:

docker build -f path/to/file/Dockerfile -t image-name .
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-f lets you specify the path to Dockerfile.

Tag or rename image 

docker tag old-image-name new-image-name
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You Can use image id rather than image name: 
docker tag 0e5574283393 new-image-name
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Save image: 

docker save image-name -o output-image-name
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If the image name contains /: 
docker save image-name/image-name > output-image-name
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Load image: 

docker load --input output-image-name
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Remove images that name starting with myimage 

docker rmi $(docker image ls 'myimage*' -q)
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Delete images whose names starting with myimage.

Delete all untagged images 

docker rmi $(docker images -f "dangling=true" -q)
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Delete all images (warning) 

docker rmi -f $(docker images -q)
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Start all stopped containers 

docker start $(docker ps -aq)
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Stop all running containers 

docker stop $(docker ps -q)
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Delete all containers 

docker rm $(docker ps -aq)
or
docker container stop $(docker container ls –aq) && docker system prune –af ––volumes
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Delete any resources — images, containers, volumes, and networks — that are dangling (warning) 

docker system prune
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Delete any stopped containers and all unused images (warning) 

docker system prune -a
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Copy file to container 

docker cp ./path/to/file.ext container-name:/path/to/destination/inside/container
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Build an image from running container 

docker commit container-name image-name:tag
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Mount file to a container 

docker run -v /path/to/file/appsettings.json:/app/appsettings.json --name my-image image-name
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Get into a Docker container's shell 

docker exec -it container-name /bin/bash
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Display volumes with mounted path 

docker ps --format 'table {{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}\t{{.Image}}\t{{.Mounts}}'
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Delete volumes whose names starting with myvloume. 

docker volume rm $(docker volume ls --filter name=myvloume -q)
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Delete dangling volumes 

docker volume ls -f dangling=true
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Build docker-compose from several files 

docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.dev.yml build
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Scale a service 

docker-compose scale service-name=2
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Command that contains $ could be executed on windows command prompt (cmd), use PowerShell instead

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