Docker - docker client

About

The CLI uses the Docker REST API to control or interact with the Docker daemon

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