I have spent some time to gather list of most used docker commands and below is a summary for same. These are not full blown commands, just to get you started and then you can use inbuilt command help.

Lifecycle

• docker create Creates a container
• docker rename Renames a container
• docker run Creates and runs a container
• docker rm Removes a container
• docker update Updates a container resource limits

Starting/stopping a container

• docker start Starts a container
• docker stop Stops a container
• docker restart Stops and starts a container
• docker pause Pauses a running container
• docker unpause Unpause a running container
• docker wait Blocks until running container stops
• docker kill Sends a SIGKILL to a container
• docker attach Connects to a running container

Container resource constraints

• docker run -it –c 512 {Container_name} Sets the container to 50% usage of the available CPU cores. The value 512 specifies 50%, whereas changing the value to 1024 specifies 100%
• docker run -it -m 100M {Container_name} Sets the container to have a memory limit of 100M

Container information

• docker ps Shows the running containers
• docker ps -a Shows the running as well as previously ran containers
• docker logs Gets logs from a container
• docker inspect Looks at all the information on a container
• docker events Gets event information from a container
• docker port Shows the public-facing port of a container
• docker top Shows running processes in a container
• docker stats Shows the resource usage statistics for a container
• docker diff Shows changed files in the containers file systems

Images

• docker images Shows all the images on the container host
• docker build Create an image from a Dockerfile
• docker commit Creates an image from a container
• docker rmi Remove an image from a container host
• docker history Shows all the history of image
• docker tag Tags an image to a local host or registry
• docker pull Pull the image from a registry
• docker search Search a image from docker hub
• docker push Push an image to a registry
• docker save Archive an image as tar file

Network

• docker network create Creates a network for a container
• docker network rm Removes a network
• docker network ls Lists all networks
• docker network inspect Display all info in relation to the network
• docker network connect Connects a container to a network
• docker network disconnect Disconnects a container from a network

Registry

• docker login Login to docker registry
• docker logout Logout from registry