Docker Tip: Quick reference of commonly used docker command
// start a container with latest python docker run // once container shuts down, just remove the container docker --rm // mount host directory to a directly inside of container docker -v ${host_dir}:/dir_inside_container // interactive, basically allow us to interact with something inside the container docker -it i.e. // start a python container and enter python interpreter docker run \ --rm \ -it \ python:latest \ python // -p host_port:container_port takes host_port and forward to container_port // -d run container in background, if not specified, it will run in foreground start container in background if -d is specified // if a container is issued to be run in background, we can stop it by first figuring out the container name then issue docker stop <container name> // check running containers, this will display container id, image, created, status, ports, and names docker ps docker container ls // docker build command docker build \ // -t is