Docker Commands Cheat Sheet

Build an image from a Dockerfile in the current directory

List all locally available images

Download an image from a registry

Upload an image to a registry

Create a tag (alias) for an image

Remove one or more images

Show the build history (layers) of an image

Run a new container interactively with a TTY

Run a container in detached mode, mapping host port 8080 to container port 80

Run a container and automatically remove it when it exits

Run a container, mounting the current directory into /app

List running containers

List all containers, including stopped ones

Start a stopped container

Stop a running container gracefully

Restart a container

Remove a stopped container

Force-remove a running container

Send SIGKILL to stop a container immediately

Open an interactive shell inside a running container

Stream the logs of a running container

Show detailed low-level information about a container or image

Show the running processes inside a container

Show live resource usage (CPU, memory, network) for running containers

Copy files between a container and the local filesystem

Show changed files in a container's filesystem since it started

Build, (re)create and start all services defined in docker-compose.yml

Start all services in detached mode

Stop and remove containers, networks and volumes created by up

List containers for the current Compose project

Stream logs from all services in the Compose project

Open a shell in a running Compose service

Build (or rebuild) images for services that have a build section

Restart a single service

List all volumes

Create a named volume

Remove a volume

List all networks

Create a new network

Connect a running container to a network

Remove unused containers, networks and dangling images

Remove all unused images, containers, networks and volumes

Remove all stopped containers

Remove all unused images, not just dangling ones

Remove all unused local volumes