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1 Docker CheatSheet Cloud

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1.1 Docker Trouble Shooting

Name Summary
Docker push: manifest invalid Re-push a new version of the same docker tag may fail, due to permis
Docker pull: missing signature key Docker push again to resolve the issue
Docker cp: Error response from daemon: not a directory container folder is in a symbol link
Find process id by container name docker top $container_id, or docker top $container_name
List resource usage by containers docker stats
Get dockerd storage driver docker info, then check Storage Driver
docker-containerd-shim The Docker four components: Docker engine, containerd, containe

1.2 Docker Basic

Name Summary
Install docker on Ubuntu apt-get install docker.io
Install docker on CentOS Use docker repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
Install docker in Debian 10 Link: How To Install and Use Docker on Debian 10
Install old docker version GitHub: install-old-docker.md

1.3 Docker start service

Name Summary
Start a ubuntu test env docker run ubuntu:16.04 /bin/echo hello world
Start a ubuntu 18.04 test env docker run ubuntu:18.04 /bin/echo hello world
Start a container run and stop docker run --rm ubuntu:18.04 /bin/echo hello world
Start a debian9 test env docker run debian:9 /bin/echo hello world
Start a centos test env docker run centos:centos6 /bin/echo hello world
Start a jenkins server docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 50000:50000 jenkins/jenkins:lts
Start a nginx server docker run -t -d -p 8080:80 --name nginx-test nginx
Start a mysql server docker run -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password123 -e MYSQL_DATABASE=wordpress -d mys
Start a nexus server docker run -d -p 8082:8081 --name nexus -v /data/nexus-data:/nexus-data sonatype
Start a sshd server docker run -t -d --privileged -p 5022:22 denny/sshd:latest /usr/sbin/sshd -D
Start a ftp server docker run -t -d -p 21:21 -p 20:20 -e USERNAME=${username} -e PASSWORD=${passwor

1.4 Container Runtime

Name Summary
dockerd
containerd
cri-o From Redhat
rkt a pod-native container engine for Linux from CoreOS. Stopped maintainance now
Amazon ACS supports DC/OS, Swarm, Kubernetes
CoreOS Fleet
Cloud Foundry Diego Not actively maintained any more
Reference CheatSheet: Docker, CheatSheet: CRI-O, CheatSheet: rkt, CheatSheet: containerd

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1.5 Container Basic

Name Summary
Start docker container docker run -p 4000:80 imgname
Start docker container in detached mode docker run -d -p 4000:80 imgname
Start container with entrypoint changed docker run -t -d --entrypoint=/bin/sh "$docker_image"
Enter a running container docker exec -it <container-id> sh
Upload local file to container filesystem docker cp /tmp/foo.txt mycontainer:/foo.txt
Download container file local filesystem docker cp mycontainer:/foo.txt /tmp/foo.txt
Stop container docker stop <hash>
Remove container docker rm <hash>
Remove all containers docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)
Force shutdown of one given container docker kill <hash>
Login to docker hub docker login
Tag <image> docker tag <image> username/repo:tag
Docker push a tagged image to repo docker push username/repo:tag
Run image from a given tag docker run username/repo:tag
Create docker image docker build -t denny/image:test .

1.6 Docker Cleanup

Name Summary
Remove unused docker images delete-unused-images.sh
Delete all containers delete-all-containers.sh
Remove exited containers docker rm $(docker ps --filter status=exited -qa)
Docker prune images docker image prune -f
Docker prune volumes docker volume prune -f
Remove the specified image docker rmi <imagename>
Remove all docker images docker rmi $(docker images -q)
Remove orphaned docker volumes docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)
Remove dead containers docker rm $(docker ps --filter status=dead -qa)

1.7 Dockerfile

Name Summary
Change entrypoint to run nothing entrypoint: ["tail", "-f", "/dev/null"]
Set timezone in Dockerfile RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezon
Define multiple line command GitHub: Dockerfile-example-multiline

1.8 Docker Compose

Name Summary
Change restart policy restart: always, Link: Compose file version 3 reference
Mount file as volume $PWD/httpd/httpd.conf:/usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:ro GitHub: sample-mount-file.yml
Start compose env docker-compose up, docker-compose up -d
Stop compose env docker-compose down, docker-compose down -v
Check logs docker-compose logs

1.9 Docker Containers

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Name Summary
Start docker container docker run -p 4000:80 <imgname>
Start docker container in detached mode docker run -d -p 4000:80 imgname
Start docker container and remove when exit docker run -rm -it <imgname> sh
Enter a running container docker exec -it [container-id] sh
Stop container docker stop <hash>
List all containers docker ps, docker ps -a
Remove container docker rm <hash>, docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)
Force shutdown of one given container docker kill <hash>
Login to docker hub docker login
Run image from a given tag docker run username/repo:tag
Tail container logs docker logs --tail 5 $container_name
Check container healthcheck status docker inspect --format ’{{.State.Health}}’ $container_name
List containers by labels docker ps --filter "label=org.label-schema.group"

1.10 Docker Images

Name Summary
List all images docker images, docker images -a
Create docker image docker build -t denny/image:<tag> .
Docker push a tagged image to repo docker push denny/image:<tag>
Show the history of an image docker history <image_name>
Export image to file docker save <image_name> > my_img.tar
Load image to local registry docker load -i my_img.tar
Tag <image> docker tag <image> username/repo:tag

1.11 Docker Socket file

Name Summary
Run container mounting socket file docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -it alpine sh
A different docker socket file export DOCKER_HOST=unix:///my/docker.sock
List containers curl -XGET --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock http://localhost/containers/jso
Stop container curl -XPOST --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock http://localhost/containers/<c
Start container curl -XPOST --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock http://localhost/containers/<c
List events curl --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock http://localhost/events
Create container curl -XPOST --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock -d ’{"Image":"nginx:alpine"}’
Links Link: Develop with Docker Engine SDKs and API

1.12 Docker Conf

Name Summary
Docker files /var/lib/docker, /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/mnt
Docker for Mac ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/

1.13 Ubuntu docker: Install missing packages

Name Summary
Pull ubuntu docker image docker pull ubuntu
man: command not found apt-get update, apt-get install man
ping: command not found apt-get update, apt-get install iputils-ping
dig: command not found apt-get install dnsutils

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1.14 Check Status

Name Summary
Tail container logs docker logs --tail 5 $container_name
Check container healthcheck status docker inspect --format ’{{.State.Health}}’ $container_name
List containers docker ps
List all containers docker ps -a
List containers by labels docker ps --filter "label=org.label-schema.group"
List all images docker images -a

1.15 Resource Reference

Name Summary
Docker SDK https://docs.docker.com/develop/sdk/examples/
Docker REST API https://docs.docker.com/engine/api/v1.27/#tag/Container
Docker Hub auto build https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/builds/#build-statuses-explained

1.16 More Resources

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