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The CLI uses the Docker REST API to control or interact with the Docker daemon
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Syntax
[sudo] docker [subcommand] [flags] [arguments] ..
:: docker help
:: docker subcommand --help
where subcommand is:
- attach - Attach to a running container
- build - Build an image from a Dockerfile
- commit - Create a new image from a container's changes
- cp - Copy files/folders between a container and the local filesystem
- create - Create a new container
- diff - Inspect changes on a container's filesystem
- events - Get real time events from the server
- exec - Run a command in a running container
- export - Export a container's filesystem as a tar archive
- history - Show the history of an image
- images - List images
- import - Import the contents from a tarball to create a filesystem image
- info - Display system-wide information
- inspect - Return low-level information on a container, image or task
- kill - Kill one or more running containers
- load - Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN
- login - Log in to a Docker registry.
- logout - Log out from a Docker registry.
- logs - Fetch the logs of a container
- network - Manage Docker networks
- node - Manage Docker Swarm nodes
- pause - Pause all processes within one or more containers
- port - List port mappings or a specific mapping for the container
- ps - List containers
- pull - Pull an image or a repository from a registry
- push - Push an image or a repository to a registry
- rename - Rename a container
- restart - Restart a container
- rm - Remove one or more containers
- rmi - Remove one or more images
- run - Run a command in a new container
- save - Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default)
- search - Search the Docker Hub for images
- service - Manage Docker services
- start - Start one or more stopped containers
- stats - Display a live stream of container(s) resource usage statistics
- stop - Stop one or more running containers
- swarm - Manage Docker Swarm
- tag - Tag an image into a repository
- top - Display the running processes of a container
- unpause - Unpause all processes within one or more containers
- update - Update configuration of one or more containers
- version - Show the Docker version information
- volume - Manage Docker volumes
- wait - Block until a container stops, then print its exit code
Example:
See How to run a docker image with example to create a container?
docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash