Docker hands-on

This section explains how to use Docker to run any application inside containers. The Docker installation explained in the previous section also installs the docker command-line utility or the Docker client. Let's explore the docker command. Using the docker command consists of passing it a chain of options and commands followed by arguments.

The syntax takes this form:

$ docker [option] [command] [arguments]
# To see help for inpidual command
$ docker help [command]  

To view system wide information about Docker and the Docker version, use the following:

$ sudo docker info
$ sudo docker version  

Docker has many subcommands to manage multiple resources managed by the Docker daemon. Here is a list of management commands supported by Docker:

In the next section, we will explore container and image resources.