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Docker Tutorial - Cheatsheet

Docker Tutorial 1 Installation

Video Docker Tutorial 1

ON UBUNTU 14-10

Repo install usually back leveled

sudo apt-get install -y docker.io  #
sudo usermod -aG docker vagrant
docker info
docker -v 
docker version
sudo service docker restart

Use (for latest)

wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh

Pre release

wget -qO- https://test.docker.com/ | sh

Basic Commands

docker info
docker -v 
docker version
sudo service docker restart

Centos 7

Repo install usually back leveled

sudo yum install docker
sudo service docker start
sudo chkconfig docker on #(start at boot)
docker info
docker version
sudo service docker restart

Alternativly (for latest)

sudo wget https://get.docker.com/builds/Linux/x86_64/docker-latest -O /usr/bin/docker
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/docker
sudo /usr/bin/docker -d &
sudo docker info
sudo docker version

(it’s a plane install, no docker conf.. not startup configs..)

On Fedora 20

sudo yum -y remove docker
sudo yum install docker-io
sudo service docker start
sudo chkconfig docker on (start at boot)

Docker Tutorial 2 - Run Command Basics

Video Docker Tutorial 2

Run first container

docker ps -a
docker run busybox 
docker ps
docker ps -a
docker run -i busybox  (STDIN)
ls
pwd
hostname

(Crtl-d) to cancel

docker ps
docker ps -a
docker run -t busybox

Note: a ctrl-c doesn't kill it

docker ps
docker ps -a
docker run -it busybox

(basic Shell)

hostname
ps -ef 
exit 
docker ps
docker ps -a


docker run -it busybox
hostname
ps -ef 

ctrl-p-q (quits without killing the container)

docker ps
docker ps -a
docker run -d busybox

(It’s gone)

docker ps
docker ps -a


docker run -itd busybox
docker ps 
docker attach xxxx
ls

ctrl-p-q (quits without killing docker attach the container*

docker ps --no-trunc=true

(long CID)

cid=$(docker run -itd busybox)
echo $cid
docker inspect $cid
docker inspect --format '{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}' $cid
docker stop $cid

Or.. .use the name

docker run --name john1 -itd busybox
docker attach john1
docker stop john1
docker run -itd busy box
docker run -itd busy box
docker run -itd busy box
docker run -itd busy box
docker run --name john2 -itd busybox
docker run --name john3 -itd busybox
docker ps -q 


 docker ps 
 docker rm <cid>
 docker rm $(docker ps -aq)

Docker Tutorial 3 - Demystifying Volumes

Video Docker Tutorial 3

setup

FROM ubuntu:14.04

MAINTAINER John Willis  <john@socketplane.io>

VOLUME ["/john99"]

CMD ["/bin/sh"]
docker build -f myimage.dockerfile -t myimage .

Volumes

(Simple Run)

docker run -it -v /john1 busybox
cd john1
touch file1
ctrl-p-q   # Keep in running 

docker restart <cid>
docker exec <cid> ls /john1

The file stays until we remove the container
however, if we start a new container based on the orgi busybox image

docker run -it -v /john1 busybox
cd john1
ls  (not there)   This was a new run..
exit

We can also have volumes that have volumes defined in the imagee build..

docker images   (show my image)  
docker inspect <imageid>
docker history <imagename>

docker run -itd myimage
cd mydir 
ls    (file1 will alwys be there)
touch file2  (same rues apply) 
ls
exit

docker run -it -v /john1 myimage
ls   (both directories) 

cd into both…

on docker host..

mkdir john3
cd john3
touch file3
touch file4
   
docker run -it -v /vagrant/john3:/john3 myimage    (host needs to be abs path)

good for testing src code…

cd john3
ls
touch file5
ls
exit

on docker host..

cd john3
ls   (see files 3 and 4 and 5)
 
docker run -it -v ~/john3:/john3:ro myimage   (point out ~) 
cd john3
vi file5
save???

docker run -it -v ~/.bash_history:/.bash_history myimage

docker ps -a   (see what's running)
docker kill $(docker ps -q)
docker rm $(docker ps -aq)   
docker ps -a

docker run -it --name john1 -v ~/john3:/john3 myimage
ls  (directories are there.. and files trust me) 
### ctrl-pq   (keep running) 

docker ps

docker run -it --name john2 --volumes-from john1 myimage
ls
###  ctrlpq

docker run -it --name john3 --volumes-from john2 myimage

***(make a backup)**

docker run --rm --volumes-from john1 -v $(pwd):/backup busybox tar cvf /backup/john2.tar /john

Docker Tutorial 4 - More Run Commands

Video Docker Tutorial 4

Look at docker hub check out ubuntu, centos and fedora

Search dockerhub

docker -v 
history
docker search ubuntu
docker search -s 10 ubuntu
docker search --no-trunc=true -s 10 ubuntu

docker images
docker pull ubuntu
docker pull ubuntu:14.04
docker pull ubuntu:trusty
docker images

( explain all 5 tags and tagging)

docke
docker ps    (look at what happened.. ran /bin/bash)

docker run -itd ubuntu /bin/sh
docker ps  (look at what happened.. ran /bin/sh)

docker history <image id>   (Show the CMD) 

docker run -itd ubuntu uname -a
docker ps -a  (look at what happened..no in the CMD STDIN gone)
docker logs <cid>

docker run -itd ubuntu sleep 10 && watch docker ps

cleanup

docker kill $(docker ps -q) && docker rm $(docker ps -aq)

docker run -itd --name job1 ubuntu /bin/sh -c "while true; do echo Docker Rocks; sleep 1; done"

docker logs -h
docker logs -ft job1

docker kill job1
docker rm job1 
docker ps -a

docker run -itd --name job2 ubuntu /bin/sh -c "while true; do echo Docker Rocks; sleep 1; done"
docker kill $(docker ps -lq)  (stop the last container) 
docker rm $(docker ps -lq)

Fun with PIDS

docker run -itd --name job2 ubuntu /bin/sh -c "while true; do echo Docker Rocks; sleep 1; done"
docker stats job2
watch docker top job2 -ef  (watch the pid change) 
docker exec -itd job2 sleep 20
watch docker top job2 -ef

**Using Inspect **

docker inspect -h 
docker inspect job2
docker inspect --format '{{.Name}} {{.State.Running}}' job2

**Fun with 1.6 **

docker ps -a
docker run  -itd --name job4 --label=NodeNumber=3 --label=NodeType=cluster ubuntu
docker inspect job4 > jmw.out  (find /Labels) 
docker inspect --format '{{.Name}} {{.Config.Labels.NodeType}}' job4

cid=$(docker run -itd ubuntu)
docker attach $cid
ulimit -a
cid=$(docker run -itd --ulimit nofile=1024:1024 ubuntu)
docker attach $cid
ulimit -a
cid=$(docker run -itd --ulimit nofile=1024:1024 --ulimit core=102400 --ulimit nproc=1000 --ulimit nice=100 --ulimit memlock=8196 --ulimit fsize=8192 --ulimit rss=4096 --ulimit cpu=4 --ulimit locks=1000 --ulimit sigpending=100 --ulimit msgqueue=1000 --ulimit nice=100 --ulimit rtprio=100 ubuntu)

docker attach $cid
ulimit -a

Docker Tutorial 5 - Basic Networking

Video Docker Tutorial 5

Note: Networking Changed in 1.9 but this tutorial still covers the default Bridge networking...

** Setup **

 sudo apt-get install -y bridge-utils curl
 docker run -d --name db -p 3306:3306 mysql
 docker run -d --name wp1 -p 80:80 wordpress
 docker run -d --name wp2 -p 81:80 wordpress

**Commands **

 ip a  ( explain eth0=nat eth1 my ip, docker0= bridge)  (docker0 sunset /16 65k)

ip a show docker0

**explain docker0 (this is a virtual bridge and the IP is the gateway for all contianers on this docker host) ** … 172.17.42.1/16

 docker run -itd —name u1 ubuntu
 docker exec u1 ip a

 ip a 

 brctl show docker0  (explain veth each container has a eth0 veth pair)

 docker run -it —name u2 ubuntu
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install -y inetutils-traceroute

 traceroute docker.com

(look at iptables nat configuration) sudo iptables -t nat -L -n (docker also setup masquerade rule for all container traffic). allows any outbound but by default no inbound…(show the masa rule)

(these rules are configured dynamically by docker based on how you use the EXPOSE docker history httpd (look at the expose cmd for port 80)

 docker run -itd --name web1 -P httpd

 docker exec web1 ip a   (look at the ip address)

 sudo iptables -t nat -L -n

 curl localhost:32768

 docker run -itd --name web2 -p 80 httpd

 sudo iptables -t nat -L -n   (look at the new DNAT rule)

 docker run -itd --name web3 -p 8080:80 httpd

 sudo iptables -t nat -L -n   (look at the new DNAT rule)

 curl localhost::8080

on the LAMP stack setup docker host

 docker ps (look at my three machines… ) 

 ip a  ( explain eth0=nat eth1 my ip, docker0= bridge)  (docker0 sunset /16 65k)

 brctl show docker0  (explain veth )

 sudo iptables -t nat -L -n  (docker also setup masquerade rule for all container traffic). 

allows any outbound but by default no inbound…(show the masa rule)

 ip addr show eth1

hit the web page… at 80 then at 8080 then 1936

 cat /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg

 docker run -d --name wp3 -p 82:80 wordpress

 docker exec wp3 ip a

 sudo vi /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg   (add new interface)

 sudo service haproxy reload 

*hit 1936

Docker Tutorial 6 Dockerfile (Part 1)

Video Docker Tutorial 6 (Part 1) Video Docker Tutorial 6 (Part 2)

ON UBUNTU 14-10

Basic Three Commands FROM, RUN and CMD

apache-ex1

FROM ubuntu:14.04

RUN apt-get -y install apache2 

CMD ["/usr/sbin/apache2ctl", "-D", "FOREGROUND"]

Commands

docker build -f apache-dockerfile-ex1 -t apache-ex1 .

docker images
    
cid=$(docker run -itd apache-ex1)
    
docker exec $cid ip a

nid=$(docker inspect --format '{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}' $cid)
    
curl $nid

Caching

docker build -f apache-dockerfile-ex1 -t apache-ex1 .
    
docker build --no-cache=true -f apache-dockerfile-ex1 -t apache-ex1 .

Alternate Syntax

apache-ex2

FROM ubuntu:14.04

RUN ["apt-get","install","-y","apache2"]

CMD /usr/sbin/apache2ctl -D FOREGROUND

Finding index.html

docker run -it apache-ex1 /bin/sh

find / -name index.html

More Commands ADD and EXPOSE

apache-ex3

FROM ubuntu:14.04

RUN \
  apt-get update && \
  apt-get -y install apache2 

ADD index.html /var/www/html/index.html

EXPOSE 80 

CMD ["/usr/sbin/apache2ctl", "-D", "FOREGROUND"]

index.html

<h1>Docker Rocks!</h1>

Commands

cat index.html 
    
docker build -f apache-dockerfile-ex3 -t apache-ex3 .
    
cid=$(docker run -itd -P apache-ex3)
    
nid=$(docker inspect --format '{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}' $cid)
    
curl $nid

Show from Web Browser

ip a show eth1

docker ps -a

Volume Command

apache-ex4

FROM ubuntu:14.04

VOLUME [ "/var/www/html" ]

ADD index.html /var/www/html/index.html

RUN \
  apt-get update && \
  apt-get -y install apache2 

EXPOSE 80 

CMD ["/usr/sbin/apache2ctl", "-D", "FOREGROUND"]

Commands

docker build -f apache-dockerfile-ex4 -t apache-ex4 .
    
cid=$(docker run -itd -v ~/test/index.html:/var/www/html/index.html wordpress-ex4)
    
nid=$(docker inspect --format '{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}' $cid)
    
curl $nid

Modify index.html

curl $nid

Final Touches

apache-ex5

FROM ubuntu:14.04

MAINTAINER John Willis  <john@socketplane.io>
ENV REFRESHED_AT 2016-04-20 

VOLUME [ "/var/www/html" ]
WORKDIR /var/www/html

ADD index.html /var/www/html/index.html

RUN \
  apt-get update && \
  apt-get -y install apache2 

EXPOSE 80 

ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/sbin/apache2ctl"]
CMD ["-D", "FOREGROUND"]

Show Using Variable for Refresh

docker build -f apache-dockerfile-ex5 -t apache-ex5 .
    
docker build -f apache-dockerfile-ex5 -t apache-ex5 .

Modify REFRESH VARIABLE in the Dockerfile

docker build -f apache-dockerfile-ex5 -t apache-ex5 .

Docker Tutorial 8 – Troubleshooting with Sysdig

Video Docker Tutorial 8

Docker Tutorial 9 Docker Machine

Video Docker Tutorial 9

Note ... Installation on MAC and Windows at 1.8 or above should be done via the Docker Toolbox

Installation on OSX

Install Machine

sudo wget --no-check-certificate -O /usr/local/bin/docker-machine https://github.com/docker/machine/releases/download/v0.3.0/docker-machine_darwin-amd64

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-machine

docker-machine -v

Install Docker (client)

sudo wget --no-check-certificate -O /usr/local/bin/docker https://get.docker.com/builds/Darwin/x86_64/docker-latest

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker

docker -v

Running Machine on Virtualbox

docker-machine create --driver virtualbox dev1

docker-machine ls

eval "$(docker-machine env dev1)"

docker run busybox echo hello world

docker ps -a

Running Machine on Digital Ocean

docker-machine create --driver digitalocean --digitalocean-access-token=$DIGITAL_OCEAN_TOKEN dev2

docker-machine ls

eval "$(docker-machine env dev2)"

docker-machine ls   (show the active machine)

docker run busybox echo hello world

docker ps -a

Running Machine on Amazon EC2

docker-machine -D create --driver amazonec2 --amazonec2-access-key $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID --amazonec2-secret-key $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY --amazonec2-vpc-id $AWS_VPC_ID --amazonec2-zone b dev3

docker-machine ls

eval "$(docker-machine env dev3)"

docker-machine ls   (show the active machine)

docker run busybox echo hello world

docker ps -a

Docker Tutorial 10 - Docker Compose

Video Docker Tutorial 10

Note ... Installation on MAC and Windows at 1.8 or above should be done via the Docker Toolbox

Installation on OS X

Install Compose

sudo wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.2.0/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m`

sudo mv docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

docker-compose --version

Install Docker (client) (if not already installed)

sudo wget --no-check-certificate -O /usr/local/bin/docker https://get.docker.com/builds/Darwin/x86_64/docker-latest

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker

docker -v

Canonical Docker-Compose (Python/Redis) example

docker-compose.yml

web:
  build: .
  command: python app.py
  ports:
   - "5000:5000"
  volumes:
   - .:/code
  links:
   - redis
 redis:
  image: redis

Dockerfile

FROM python:2.7
ADD . /code
WORKDIR /code
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt

app.py

from flask import Flask
from redis import Redis
import os
app = Flask(__name__)
redis = Redis(host='redis', port=6379)

@app.route('/')
def hello():
    redis.incr('hits')
    return 'Hello World! I have been seen %s times.' % redis.get('hits')

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", debug=True)

requirements.txt

flask
redis

Commands

docker-compose up -d

docker-compose ps

docker-compose logs

curl localhost:5000

docker-compose stop

Tomcat Sample example

docker pull tomcat

docker history tomcat | grep -i expose

cid=$(docker run -d -P tomcat)

docker ps

curl localhost:32xxx 

docker kill $cid

docker rm $cid

Now let's Compose it...

compose-ex1.yml

tomcatapp:
  image: tomcat
  ports:
   - "8080"

Commands

docker-compose -f compose-ex1.yml up -d

docker-compose -f compose-ex1.yml ps

docker-compose -f compose-ex1.yml logs

curl localhost:32xxx 

docker-compose -f compose-ex1.yml stop

docker-compose -f compose-ex1.yml rm

Now let's Compose it... (add a sample.war file)

Figure out where the webapps directory is

docker run -it tomcat bash 

ls   

nginx.conf

worker_processes 1;

events { worker_connections 1024; }

http {

    sendfile on;

    gzip              on;
    gzip_http_version 1.0;
    gzip_proxied      any;
    gzip_min_length   500;
    gzip_disable      "MSIE [1-6]\.";
    gzip_types        text/plain text/xml text/css
                      text/comma-separated-values
                      text/javascript
                      application/x-javascript
                      application/atom+xml;

    # List of application servers
    upstream app_servers {

        server tomcatapp1:8080;
        server tomcatapp2:8080;
        server tomcatapp3:8080;

    }

    # Configuration for the server
    server {

        # Running port
        listen [::]:80;
        listen 80;

        # Proxying the connections connections
        location / {

            proxy_pass         http://app_servers;
            proxy_redirect     off;
            proxy_set_header   Host $host;
            proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;

        }
    }
}

compose-ex2.yml

nginx:
  image: nginx
  links:
   - tomcatapp1:tomcatapp1
   - tomcatapp2:tomcatapp2
   - tomcatapp3:tomcatapp3
  ports:
   - "80:80"
  volumes:
   - nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
tomcatapp1:
  image: tomcat
  volumes:
   - sample.war:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/sample.war
tomcatapp2:
  image: tomcat
  volumes:
   - sample.war:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/sample.war
tomcatapp3:
  image: tomcat
  volumes:
   - sample.war:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/sample.war

Commands

export COMPOSE_FILE=compose-ex2.yml

docker-compose up -d

docker-compose ps 

docker exec composetest_nginx_1 cat /etc/hosts

docker exec composetest_tomcatapp1_1 ip a 

docker exec composetest_tomcatapp2_1 ip a

docker exec composetest_tomcatapp3_1 ip a

curl http://localhost/sample/

docker-compose stop

Docker Tutorial 11 - Docker Swarm

Video Docker Tutorial 11

Setup

docker-machine create --driver virtualbox dev1

eval "$(docker-machine env dev1)"

docker pull swarm

docker history swarm

docker run swarm     #(get help)

Create a Cluster

sid=$(docker run swarm create) 

files $ echo $sid
1ffdb70193793b943df9456a35c24817

Create the Swarm Manager

docker-machine create -d virtualbox --swarm --swarm-master --swarm-discovery token://$sid swarm-master

docker-machine ls

eval "$(docker-machine env swarm-master)"

docker-machine ls

docker info

Create Swarm Nodes

docker-machine create -d virtualbox --engine-label itype=frontend --swarm --swarm-discovery token://$sid swarm-node-01

docker-machine create -d virtualbox --swarm --swarm-discovery token://$sid swarm-node-02

docker-machine create -d virtualbox --swarm --swarm-discovery token://$sid swarm-node-03

docker-machine ls

docker-machine env --swarm swarm-master   # (checkout the different port)

eval "$(docker-machine env --swarm swarm-master)"

docker-machine ls    (Notice non of the docker machines have the asterick) 

docker info

docker run swarm list token://$sid

docker ps     #(no containers are running in the swarm)

Look at the Four Nodes

docker-machine ls

eval "$(docker-machine env swarm-master)"

docker ps

eval "$(docker-machine env swarm-node-01)"

docker ps

eval "$(docker-machine env swarm-node-02)"

docker ps

eval "$(docker-machine env swarm-node-03)"

docker ps

Running Docker Instances with Swarm (explain Spead vs Binpack

eval "$(docker-machine env --swarm swarm-master)"

docker ps 

docker run -itd --name engmgr ubuntu 

docker ps 

for i in `seq 1 6`; do docker run -itd -e constraint:itype!=frontend --name eng$i ubuntu; done

docker ps 

docker run -itd --name engmgr-c -e affinity:container==engmgr ubuntu

Cleanup

docker-machine kill $(docker-machine ls -q)

docker-machine rm $(docker-machine ls -q)

Docker Tutorial 12 - Kitematic

Video Docker Tutorial 12

Note ... Installation on MAC and Windows at 1.8 or above should be done via the Docker Toolbox

Docker Tutorial 13 – Getting Started with the New Experimental Docker Networking

Note ... This video covers pre 1.9 networking fucntionality that was in experimental and in 1.9 the UX sigificantly such that this vide is no longer valid.

@danielbryantuk
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Hey @botchagalupe, great tutorial series! One small comment - should the line reading

files $ echo $sid

actually be:

echo $sid

?

@biox
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biox commented Nov 12, 2015

Good stuff @botchagalupe, I enjoyed your class - it was well put together. I have the following suggestions for CentOS 7 section:

From:

sudo yum install docker
sudo service docker start
sudo chkconfig docker on #(start at boot)
docker info
docker version
sudo service docker restart

To:

sudo yum install docker
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker #(start at boot)
docker info
docker version
sudo systemctl restart docker

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shivahr commented Apr 2, 2016

Awesome tutorial. Thanks much for this.

One minor correction in Docker Tutorial 10 - Docker Compose
I was hitting ERROR: readdirent: not a directory when I ran docker-compose -f compose-ex2.yml up -d. As suggested in docker/compose#424 (comment) I updated the compose-ex2.yml as below (i.e. added ./ to relative paths)

nginx:
  ...
  volumes:
   - ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
tomcatapp1:
  ...
  volumes:
   - ./sample.war:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/sample.war
tomcatapp2:
  ...
  volumes:
   - ./sample.war:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/sample.war
tomcatapp3:
  ...
  volumes:
   - ./sample.war:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/sample.war

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