Quickstart¶

• Start Docker Daemon (dockerd)
• Get Minimal Ubuntu server running locally : docker run -t -i ubuntu:18.04 /bin/bash
  • If needed, image will be downloaed at first.
  • You will get a root prompt.
  • When done using exit and container instance will be shutdown.
• List dockers container, images via docker ps -a (Last column is the name required in the next step)
• Remove images (To cleanup disk space) : docker rm -f <name>

Resources¶

• Setup local dev environment - Written in mid 2016. Could be out of date, depending on when you read it.

Connect to psql inside docker¶

docker exec -it <tagname/image_name> psql -U postgres