In our previous article, we have instructed about Docker installation and configuration on Major Linux distribution such as Debian, Ubuntu, LinuxMint, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch Linux, etc..,. Now, i’m going to play with Docker images & containers. Docker stores downloaded images on the Docker host (local system). By default docker download the images from the Docker Hub Registry which was holding 100000+ images. We can also upload our own Docker images to Docker Hub Registry.
1) Listing images on the Local host
I’m going to check the docker images which is available by default in our local host.
Just fire the below command to list out that.
# docker images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE ubuntu latest 97434d46f197 2 days ago 188 MB ubuntu 12.04 8e3c25486445 2 days ago 138.4 MB hello-world latest 690ed74de00f 5 months ago 960 B
We can see three crucial pieces of information about our images in the listing.
- Repository : ubuntuFrom which repository the image came
- Tag : 12.04The tags for each image
- Image ID : xxxxThe image ID of each image.
2) Run Docker container
Docker Hub repository holds multiple variants of an image. say for example, ubuntu image having multiple versions like 12.04, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04 & 15.10. Each variant is identified by a tag. so whenever we run docker better to use image:tag so that we can run the specific one. If you don’t specify a variant, by default Docker will use latest version of image. Here i’m going to run CentOS image.
# docker run -ti ubuntu:12.04 /bin/bash root@0182f4f65333:/# cat /etc/*-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS" NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="12.04.5 LTS, Precise Pangolin" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu precise (12.04.5 LTS)" VERSION_ID="12.04"
3) Search Docker images
By default docker download the images from the Docker Hub Registry which was holding 100000+ images. Lot of people have created Docker images for a variety of purposes and uploaded to Docker Hub. If we want any images, we have option to search the image. Once we finalized the image we can download it from Docker Hub Registry to Docker host (local system).
# docker search centos NAME DESCRIPTION STARS OFFICIAL AUTOMATED centos The official build of CentOS. 2040 [OK] jdeathe/centos-ssh CentOS-6 6.7 x86_64 / CentOS-7 7.2.1511 x8... 17 [OK] jdeathe/centos-ssh-apache-php CentOS-6 6.7 x86_64 / Apache / PHP / PHP M... 14 [OK] million12/centos-supervisor Base CentOS-7 with supervisord launcher, h... 9 [OK] blalor/centos Bare-bones base CentOS 6.5 image 8 [OK] nimmis/java-centos This is docker images of CentOS 7 with dif... 8 [OK] torusware/speedus-centos Always updated official CentOS docker imag... 7 [OK] nickistre/centos-lamp LAMP on centos setup 3 [OK] nathonfowlie/centos-jre Latest CentOS image with the JRE pre-insta... 3 [OK]
4) Download Docker images
By default docker will download the images which isn’t present on the Docker host (local system) when we are run the docker container which will take some time to launch the container. So better we can finalize the necessary container then download to Docker host (local system) before Run Docker container.
# docker pull centos
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from library/centos
a3ed95caeb02: Pull complete
196355c4b639: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:381f21e4c7b3724c6f420b2bcfa6e13e47ed155192869a2a04fa10f944c78476
Status: Downloaded newer image for centos:latest
# docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
ubuntu latest 97434d46f197 2 days ago 188 MB
ubuntu 12.04 8e3c25486445 2 days ago 138.4 MB
centos latest d0e7f81ca65c 2 weeks ago 196.6 MB
hello-world latest 690ed74de00f 5 months ago 960 B
[To pull specific image]
# docker pull centos:6.7
5) Download user Docker images
The similar way we can pull the user image belongs to a member of the Docker community but the image is slightly different compare with Docker Hub images. You can identify user images as they are always prefixed with the user name like xxx/xxxx.
# docker pull xxx/xxxx
6) Remove an image from the host
We can easily remove the Docker image from host which we don’t need it anymore.
# docker rmi debian
Enjoy…)
