vSphere Integrated Containers – additional Docker commands

vSphere Integrated Containers brings an enterprise container runtime into vSphere environments, where developers, who are familiar to Docker, can run their containerized applications transparently without even noticing it’s running on a nontraditional Docker host.

In order to provide this seamless experience, VIC must provide a completely parity of supported commands with Docker. VMware has been putting a lot of efforts on each release to add as much commands as possible, making developers life easier and easier.

Along with a bunch of new features and fixes, VIC 1.2 also made a step closer to the 100% parity with Docker adding support for the following most used commands;

- docker cp

description: Copy files to and from containers

syntax: docker cp "src_file" container_ID:"dst_path"

 

- docker exec 
description: run commands on a running container

syntax: docker exec container_ID [command]

- docker commit

description: Commit changes to a container into a new image

syntax: docker commit container_ID new_image:tag

- docker diff

description: Inspect for differences on the containers’ file system since it’s creation

syntax: docker diff container_ID

A = file added

C = file changed

D = file deleted

- docker stats (not really new, but on 1.2 we added support for network statistics)

description: Shows container’s statistics

syntax: docker stats container_ID

For a full list of supported Docker command on VIC check the documentation.