dockr

A Docker CLI wrapper for lazy people

Put dockr somewhere in your path. I keep a bin directory in my home for things like this.

mkdir -p ~/bin
cd ~/bin
wget https://raw.github.com/crccheck/dockr/master/dockr && chmod u+x dockr

TODO add a line exporting ~/bin to bash profile for reference. It will probably look something like this:

echo -e "# added for dockr\nexport PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin/ >> ~/.bashrc"

The commands I use the most are: dockr b - which builds an imaged and names it according to the directory, and docker bash - which lets me shell in quickly.

Many of these commands were written for older versions of the docker cli. They have since done a better job of cleaning up intermediate containers and getting meta out.

Attach to a running container, only turn off the signal proxy by default. This way, ^C detaches from the container, instead of sending ^C to the container.

dockr attach postgis

Alternative to: docker attach --six-proxy=false postgis

Build a tagged container image based on a path.

To build an image called redis where the Dockerfile is located at ./redis:

dockr b redis/

You can also use relative paths, or leave it blank to use the current working directory. It also always tries to namespace the image. By default, it will use your username (your username has to be more then 3 characters long), but you can override it with a DOCKER_NAMESPACE environment variable:

$ pwd
/home/crccheck/dockerfiles/redis
dockr b
# ... stuff happens
dockr images
# crccheck/redis appears
# OOPS, that docker image was supposed to be under another namespace
export DOCKER_NAMESPACE=lollipop
dockr b --no-cache
# ... stuff happens
dockr images
# lolliop/redis appears

Alternative to: docker build -t redis redis/

Create a bash shell based on a one-off container based on an image.

dockr bash ubuntu:precise
dockr bash -v ~/tmp/data:/mnt/data c4f3

If you pass in arguments, make sure the image name is the last parameter.

Alternative to: docker run -i -t -v ~/tmp/data:/mnt/data c4f3 /bin/bash

Delete all untagged containers

dockr clean

Alternative to: docker rm $(some grep magic)

Delete all untagged images

dockr cleani

Alternative to: docker rmi $(some grep magic)

View stats on all running containers

dockr ctop

Alternative to: docker stats $(docker ps -q)

List images, filtering out untagged images

docker images

Alternative to: docker images | grep blahblahblah

Get the IP address of a running container

dockr ip c4f3

*Alternative to: docker inspect --format '{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}' c4f3

Get just the port number for a NAT-ed port

$ dockr port mysql 3306
49217

Alternative to: docker port mysql 3306|cut -d : -f 2

Delete the most recent container

Open a bash shell into a running container.

$ dockr shell triangle_pascal

Alternative to: docker exec -it triangle_pascal /bin/bash

Stop and remove a running container

dockr smite 5029fc

Stop all running containers

dockr stopall

Alternative to: docker stop $(docker ps -q)

Anything else you try gets passed directly to docker