How to Create, List & Delete Docker Containers on Linux

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 class="title single-title title20" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; font-size: 28px; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.24s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;"> <u><span style="color: #990000;">Create, List & Delete Docker Containers on Linux</span></u></h2> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/docker">Docker </a>is an open-source project that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers, by providing an additional layer of abstraction and automation of operating-system-level virtualization on <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Linux">Linux</a>.Docker uses the resource isolation </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicfK2zPAWfWft9ZqDzctd3DLhN_uckKfAejxj8l8y9jAqHe-ut_I7jpl1IHtjWFYKW0QZmxQsgvp-DmSqfX-lp4qo9N3rmL9uyCwovMZt8uOWKqU72bSJcgBdbbzUHBq-dtyByE25nL9hk/s1600/docker_centos_www.hackthesec.co.in.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicfK2zPAWfWft9ZqDzctd3DLhN_uckKfAejxj8l8y9jAqHe-ut_I7jpl1IHtjWFYKW0QZmxQsgvp-DmSqfX-lp4qo9N3rmL9uyCwovMZt8uOWKqU72bSJcgBdbbzUHBq-dtyByE25nL9hk/s1600/docker_centos_www.hackthesec.co.in.png" /></a></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">features of the Linux kernel such as cgroups and kernel namespaces, and a union-capable filesystem such as aufs and others to allow independent "containers" to run within a single Linux instance, avoiding the overhead of starting and maintaining virtual machines.</span></span></div> <div> <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/02/how-to-install-and-manage-docker-on-ubuntu.html" itemprop="url" style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;"></a><ul style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/02/how-to-install-and-manage-docker-on-ubuntu.html" itemprop="url" style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;"></a> <li><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/02/how-to-install-and-manage-docker-on-ubuntu.html" itemprop="url" style="background-color: white; display: block; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/02/how-to-install-and-manage-docker-on-ubuntu.html" itemprop="url" style="display: inline !important; font-size: 18.6px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red;">How to Install and Manage Docker on Ubuntu 15.10 and 14.04 LTS</span></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/02/how-to-install-docker-on-centos-7-rhel-7.html" itemprop="url" style="display: inline !important; font-size: 18.6px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red;">How to install Docker on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <div> <div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Launch Docker Container</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> To launch a new Docker container using below command. This will start a new container and provide you access of that container with <b>/bin/bash</b> shell.</div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"># docker run [OPTIONS] <IMAGE NAME> [COMMAND] [ARG...]</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">For example below command will create new docker container using image named "ubuntu". To list all available images use docker images command.</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"># docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">To exit from docker container type CTRL + P + Q. This will leave container running in background an provide you host system console. If you used exit command, it will stop the current container. <a href="https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/">Click here</a> to read for more options about docker run command.</span></span></div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>List Docker Containers</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">After existing from Docker container, execute below command to list all running containers.</span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(60, 60, 60); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: white; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 0.9em;"># </span><span style="font-size: large;">docker ps</span><span style="font-size: 0.9em;"> CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES g25536g95fgd ubuntu "/bin/bash" 1 hours ago Up 1 hours first_ubuntu</span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">By default Above command will list only running containers. To list all containers (including stopped container) use following command.</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(60, 60, 60); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: white; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 0.9em;"># </span><span style="font-size: large;">docker ps -a</span><span style="font-size: 0.9em;"> CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES g25536g95fgd ubuntu "/bin/bash" 1 hours ago Up 1 hours first_ubuntu j555io5jkdkd centos "/bin/bash" 1 days ago Exited (0) 24 hours ago ubuntu-web</span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Start/Stop/Attach Container</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">You can start, stop or attach to any containers with following commands. To start container use following command.</span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"># docker start <CONTAINER ID|NAME></span></span></pre> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"># docker stop <CONTAINER ID|NAME></span></span></pre> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"># docker attach <CONTAINER ID|NAME></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Drop Docker Container</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Before deleting any container make sure that container is stopped. You can use ‘docker ps -a’ command to list status of containers. If container is still running first stop that container using given commands in above step.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Now use following command to delete single or multiple containers use following command.</span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"># docker rm <CONTAINER ID|NAME> <CONTAINER ID|NAME></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">You can also delete all stopped containers at once using following command.</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"># docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)</span></span></pre> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/">www.hackthesec.co.in</a></span></span></pre> </div> </div> </div>

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