Manage containers

See also the Run containers cheatsheet.

List

• Show all running containers:

    $ docker ps
  

• Show running and stopped containers with the -a, --all flag:

    $ docker ps -a
  

• Show a specific container:

    $ docker ps -a --filter 'name=my-app'
  

• Show just IDs with --quiet. Useful for chaining commands.

    $ docker ps -q
  

View

• Check Linux version.

    $ docker run node:12-slim \
        cat /etc/issue
  

• See containers logs (recommended).

    $ docker logs -f my-app
  

Stop and remove container

• Stop a running container:

    $ docker stop my-app
  

• Stop all running containers. This uses --quiet flag return only the container IDs.

    $ docker stop $(docker ps -q)
  

• Remove a container (must be stopped first).

    $ docker rm my-app
  

• Remove all containers.

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

  Or

    $ docker ps -q | xargs docker rm