Docker has been involved in the majority of the projects I have helped out with in the past few weeks. The inspiration of this post comes mainly from several folks who ask similar questions about performing generic development tasks with Docker (and more specifically hosting an ASP.NET Core on a Docker container)
The first thing for me was installation. Since WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) has been released, I have used that command line as my primary way of using anything with the command prompt. The steps I took to install Docker on my machine were:
wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh
sudo usermod -aG docker jwendl
user@pc:~$ cat ~/.bash_aliases
alias docker="docker -H localhost:2375"
alias docker-compose="docker-compose -H localhost:2375"
The above bash_aliases file allows you to type in “docker” commands from your Bash on Windows shell.
Here is the list of commands that I find handy for Docker:
user@pc:~$ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
e96ebbbe0e96 microsoft/iis "C:\\ServiceMonitor..." 25 seconds ago Up Less than a second 80/tcp keen_wescoff
fd476fc28b42 microsoft/iis "C:\\ServiceMonitor..." 54 seconds ago Up 44 seconds 80/tcp friendly_kare
bb45a1bba814 microsoft/iis "C:\\ServiceMonitor..." 29 minutes ago Up 28 minutes 80/tcp adoring_mclean
user@pc:~$ docker images -a
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
microsoft/iis latest 4f803ffceb53 8 days ago 10.6GB
microsoft/aspnetcore 1.1.2-nanoserver b450022c856b 13 days ago 1.22GB
microsoft/aspnetcore 1.1 bff3f324b4c7 2 weeks ago 1.22GB
microsoft/dotnet-framework latest 624ffeea3816 5 weeks ago 11.3GB
microsoft/windowsservercore latest 2c42a1b4dea8 5 weeks ago 10.2GB
user@pc:~$ docker kill `docker ps -aq`
user@pc:~$ docker rm `docker ps -aq`
user@pc:~$ docker rmi `docker images -aq`
One thing I learned during my investigation of Docker as well, is that the full image id can be reduced in the command line to the most unique set of characters.
For instance, if your container id is 4f803ffceb5301bd94cfa2b9f931a36493effd50e9d14a53586ffb27a48bb580 (the long version), you can reference it by the shorter version gained from docker ps -a (like 4f803ffceb53). Also if it’s easier, you can type in just the 2 characters (if they are unique) when using them in a command. For us, to kill this container, we can use the following example.
user@pc:~$ docker kill 4f
This example is assuming an ASP.NET Core application.
dotnet publish -c Release out
cp Dockerfile out
docker build -t my-tag:v1 out
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 my-tag:v1
docker login myregistry.azurecr.io -u guid -p P4SSW0rd!
docker tag 4f myregistry.azurecr.io/samples/my-tag
docker push myregistry.azurecr.io/samples/my-tag
After all of the commands finish, you can now reference myregistry.azurecr.io in your docker container.
For a Linux container
user@pc:~$ docker exec -it 4f bash
For a Windows container
user@pc:~$ docker exec -it 4f powershell
You can find more tips and tricks on my developer notes page.
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