Basic Docker commands

Just a list of docker commands that I've found quite useful so far.

List the containers available locally:

docker ps -a

Just the container IDs:

docker ps -a -q

Filter the running containers:

docker ps -a -q | grep Up

or simply:

docker ps -q 

Build an image:

docker build -t <user>/<image name> .

Run a container from an image, and execute bash shell:

docker run -i -t <user>/<image name> /bin/bash

Run a container from an image, in background, linking ports:

docker run -d -p <host port>:<container port> <user>/<image name>

(You can use -p multiple times, e.g. when the container exposes more than one port)

Show logs of running container:

docker logs <container id>

Stop/start/restart container:

docker stop/start/restart <container id>

UPDATE - Stop running container with a single command:

docker ps -a|grep Up|awk '{ print $1 }'|xargs docker stop 

UPDATE - The reason why I'm not using sudo to run these commands is that I added my user to the docker group, e.g.:

sudo usermod -aG docker

I hope you find this useful.

(Docker 1.1.2 on Ubuntu 14.04)