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Useful Docker Commands

Useful Docker Commands

1. Docker install & update​

sudo apt update -y ; sudo apt upgrade -y; sudo apt autoremove -y; sudo apt install docker-compose -y

2. Docker up and build​

sudo docker-compose up --build

3. Cleaning all docker files​

docker system prune -f -a

4. Docker Stop command​

docker stop container name/image id

5. Docker Storage​

docker system df
docker system df -v

6. Docker Remove & stop all container​

docker rm -f $(docker ps -a -q)

7. Docker image build​

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build -t "dockerusername/imagename:version" .

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build -t "dockerusername/imagename:version" github.com/username/repo

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build -t "dockerusername/imagename:version" -t "dockerusername/imagename:latest" . #for multiple tags with versioning and latest

8. How to push Docker Image to DockerHub​

docker login #user your creds to login 
docker push dockerusername/imagename:version #same as you have used in Buildkit
docker push dockerusername/imagename --all-tags #For all versions

9. How to view Docker image content​

docker image history --no-trunc image name/image id