Andrea

Docker Commands

Usually if i don’t use for sometimes the Docker commands, i forget them, so here a list, as reminder, of the commands that i usually use:

Forces running containers to stop by sending a SIGKILL signal.
docker-compose kill
Builds, (re)creates, starts, and attaches to containers for a service.
docker-compose up
Stops containers and removes containers, networks, volumes, and images created by up.
docker-compose down
To list all the running and stopped containers:
docker container ls
To list all the running containers:
docker ps -a -f status=running
To list all running and stopped containers, showing only their container id
docker ps -aq
To list all the containers created irrespective of its state:
docker container ls -a
To show only running containers use the given command:
docker ps
To show all containers use the given command:
docker ps -a
To show the latest created container (includes all states) use the given command:
docker ps -l
To show n last created containers (includes all states) use the given command:
docker ps -n=-1
To display total file sizes use the given command:
docker ps -s
To delete ALL unused data (i.e., in order: containers stopped, volumes without containers and images with no containers):
docker system prune
To remove all non-running containers:
docker rm `docker ps -aq -f status=exited`