Running Docker

containers
INTRODUCTION TO DOCKER

Tim Sangster
Software Engineer @ DataCamp
Prerequisite
Command Usage
nano <file-name> Opens <file-name> in the nano text editor
touch <file-name> Creates an empty file with the specified name
echo "<text>" Prints <text> to the console
<command> >> <file> Pushes the output of <command> to the end of <file>
<command> -y Automatically respond yes to all prompts from <command>

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The Docker CLI
Docker command line interface will send instructions to the Docker daemon.

Every command starts with docker .

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Docker container output
docker run <image-name>

docker run hello-world

Hello from Docker!

To generate this message, Docker took the following steps:

1. The Docker client contacted the Docker daemon.
2. The Docker daemon created a new container from the hello-world image which runs
the executable that produces the output you are currently reading.
3. The Docker daemon streamed that output to the Docker client, which sent it to
your terminal.

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Choosing Docker container output
docker run <image-name>

docker run ubuntu

repl@host:/# docker run ubuntu

repl@host:/#

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An interactive Docker container
Adding -it to docker run will give us an interactive shell in the started container.

docker run -it <image-name>

docker run -it ubuntu

docker run -it ubuntu

repl@container:/#

repl@container:/# exit
exit
repl@host:/#

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Running a container detached
Adding -d to docker run will run the container in the background, giving us back control of
the shell.

docker run -d <image-name>

docker run -d postgres

repl@host:/# docker run -d postgres

4957362b5fb7019b56470a99f52218e698b85775af31da01958bab198a32b072
repl@host:/#

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Listing and stopping running containers
docker ps

repl@host:/# docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED
4957362b5fb7 postgres "docker-entrypoint.s…" About a minute ago
STATUS PORTS NAMES
Up About a minute 5432/tcp awesome_curie

docker stop <container-id>

repl@host:/# docker stop cf91547fd657

cf91547fd657

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Summary of new commands
Usage Command
Start a container docker run <image-name>
Start an interactive container docker run -it <image-name>
Start a detached container docker run -d <image-name>
List running containers docker ps
Stop a container docker stop <container-id>

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 Working with Docker
containers
INTRODUCTION TO DOCKER

Tim Sangster
Software Engineer @ DataCamp
Listing containers
repl@host:/# docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE .. CREATED STATUS ... NAMES
3b87ec116cb6 postgres 2 seconds ago Up 1 second ... adoring_germain
8a7830bbc787 postgres 3 seconds ago Up 2 seconds ... exciting_heisenberg
fefdf1687b39 postgres 3 seconds ago Up 2 seconds ... vigilant_swanson
b70d549d4611 postgres 4 seconds ago Up 3 seconds ... nostalgic_matsumoto
a66c71c54b92 postgres 4 seconds ago Up 4 seconds ... lucid_matsumoto
8d4f412adc3f postgres 6 seconds ago Up 5 seconds ... fervent_ramanujan
fd0b3b2a843e postgres 7 seconds ago Up 6 seconds ... cool_dijkstra
0d1951db81c4 postgres 8 seconds ago Up 7 seconds ... happy_sammet
...

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Named containers
docker run --name <container-name> <image-name>

repl@host:/# docker run --name db_pipeline_v1 postgres

repl@host:/# docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED
43aa37614330 postgres "docker-entrypoint.s…" About a minute ago
STATUS PORTS NAMES
Up About a minute 5432/tcp db_pipeline_v1

docker stop <container-name>

repl@host:/# docker stop db_pipeline_v1

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Filtering running containers
docker ps -f "name=<container-name>"

repl@host:/# docker ps -f "name=db_pipeline_v1"

CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED
43aa37614330 postgres "docker-entrypoint.s…" About a minute ago
STATUS PORTS NAMES
Up About a minute 5432/tcp db_pipeline_v1

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Container logs
docker logs <container-id>

repl@host:/# docker logs 43aa37614330

The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.utf8".

The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".

PostgreSQL init process complete; ready for start up.

2022-10-24 12:10:40.318 UTC [1] LOG: database system is ready to accept connect..

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Live logs
docker logs -f <container-id>

repl@host:/# docker logs -f 43aa37614330

PostgreSQL init process complete; ready for start up.

2022-10-24 12:10:40.309 UTC [1] LOG: starting PostgreSQL 14.5 (Debian 14.5-1.pg..
2022-10-24 12:10:40.309 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv4 address "0.0.0.0", port ..
2022-10-24 12:10:40.309 UTC [1] LOG: listening on IPv6 address "::", port 5432
2022-10-24 12:10:40.311 UTC [1] LOG: listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgre..
2022-10-24 12:10:40.315 UTC [62] LOG: database system was shut down at 2022-10-..
2022-10-24 12:10:40.318 UTC [1] LOG: database system is ready to accept connect..

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Cleaning up
docker container rm <container-id>

repl@host:/# docker stop 43aa37614330

43aa37614330
repl@host:/# docker container rm 43aa37614330
43aa37614330

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Summary of new commands
Usage Command
Start container with a name docker run --name <container-name> <image-name>
Filter running container on name docker ps -f "name=<container-name>"
See existing logs for container docker logs <container-id>
See live logs for container docker logs -f <container-id>
Exit live log view of container CTRL+C
Remove stopped container docker container rm <container-id>

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 Managing local
docker images
INTRODUCTION TO DOCKER

Tim Sangster
Software Engineer @ DataCamp
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Pulling an image
docker pull <image-name>

docker pull postgres

docker pull ubuntu

repl@host:/# docker pull hello-world

Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from library/hello-world
7050e35b49f5: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:e18f0a777aefabe047a671ab3ec3eed05414477c951ab1a6f352a06974245fe7
Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world:latest
docker.io/library/hello-world:latest

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Image versions

docker pull <image-name>:<image-version>

docker pull ubuntu:22.04

docker pull ubuntu:jammy

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Listing images
docker images

repl@host:/# docker images

REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
hello-world latest 46331d942d63 7 months ago 9.14kB
ubuntu bionic-20210723 7c0c6ae0b575 15 months ago 56.6MB
postgres 12.7 f076c2fa35f5 15 months ago 300MB
postgres 10.3 cbb7481ff9d5 4 years ago 232MB
...

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Removing images
docker image rm <image-name>

repl@host:/# docker image rm hello-world

Untagged: hello-world:latest
Untagged: hello-world@sha256:e18f0a777aefabe047a671ab3ec3eed05414477c951ab1a6f35..
Deleted: sha256:46331d942d6350436f64e614d75725f6de3bb5c63e266e236e04389820a234c4
Deleted: sha256:efb53921da3394806160641b72a2cbd34ca1a9a8345ac670a85a04ad3d0e3507

repl@host:/# docker image rm hello-world

Error response from daemon: conflict: unable to remove repository reference
"hello-world" (must force) - container 96a7b7b0c535 is using its
referenced image 46331d942d63

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Cleaning up containers
docker container prune

repl@host:/# docker container prune

WARNING! This will remove all stopped containers.
Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
Deleted Containers:
4a7f7eebae0f63178aff7eb0aa39cd3f0627a203ab2df258c1a00b456cf20063
f98f9c2aa1eaf727e4ec9c0283bc7d4aa4762fbdba7f26191f26c97f64090360

Total reclaimed space: 212 B

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Cleaning up images
docker image prune -a

repl@host:/# docker image prune -a

WARNING! This will remove all images without at least one container associated t..
Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
Deleted Images:
untagged: alpine:latest
untagged: alpine@sha256:3dcdb92d7432d56604d4545cbd324b14e647b313626d99b889d0626d..
deleted: sha256:4e38e38c8ce0b8d9041a9c4fefe786631d1416225e13b0bfe8cfa2321aec4bba
deleted: sha256:4fe15f8d0ae69e169824f25f1d4da3015a48feeeeebb265cd2e328e15c6a869f

Total reclaimed space: 16.43 MB

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Dangling images
docker images

repl@host:/# docker images

REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
testsql latest 6c49f0cce145 7 months ago 3.73GB
<none> <none> a22b8450b88f 7 months ago 3.73GB
<none> <none> 10dd2d03f59c 7 months ago 3.73GB
<none> <none> 878bae40320b 7 months ago 3.73GB
<none> <none> 4ea70583ba54 7 months ago 3.75GB
<none> <none> 3c64576a3a7d 7 months ago 3.75GB

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Summary of new commands
Usage Command
Pull an image docker pull <image-name>
Pull a specific version of an image docker pull <image-name>:<image-version>
List all local images docker images
Remove an image docker image rm <image-name>
Remove all stopped containers docker container prune
Remove all images docker image prune -a

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