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Listing Local Docker Images

📖 Scenario: You are working on your computer where you use Docker to manage containers. You want to see which Docker images are saved locally on your machine.

🎯 Goal: Learn how to list all Docker images stored locally using Docker commands.

📋 What You'll Learn

Use the Docker command line interface

List local Docker images with exact command syntax

Display the output of the Docker images list

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Developers and system administrators often need to see which Docker images are stored locally to manage disk space and container deployments.

💼 Career

Knowing how to list Docker images is a basic skill for DevOps roles and container management tasks.

1

Open your terminal and check Docker is installed

Type the command docker --version to check if Docker is installed and working.

Docker

# Type docker --version to check Docker installation
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the command docker --version to see if Docker is installed.

2

List all local Docker images

Type the command docker images to list all Docker images stored locally on your machine.

Docker

docker --version
# Type docker images to list local Docker images
# Your code here

Need a hint?

The command docker images shows all local images.

3

Add a filter to list images by a specific repository

Use the command docker images nginx to list only images from the nginx repository.

Docker

docker --version
docker images
# Type docker images nginx to filter images by repository
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Adding the repository name after docker images filters the list.

4

Display the final list of all local Docker images

Run the command docker images again to display all local Docker images.

Docker

docker --version
docker images
docker images nginx
# Run docker images to display all images
# Your code here

Need a hint?

The output should show a table with the header REPOSITORY listing all images.