Docker How To Inspect Container

Inspecting a container is easy.

Lets assuem that you have a container named inspiring_dhawan.

You can inspect a container like this:

docker inspect inspiring_dhawan

The above will give you a huge amount of output formatted as JSON. This will tell you almost anything you want to know about a running container. You can actually filter out specific information that you might need with the “–format” parameter.

The following will give you the IP address of a continer.

docker inspect --format='{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' inspiring_dhawan

You can check a containers hostname like this:

docker inspect --format='{{ .Config.Hostname }}' 

You could list the volumes used by a container like this:

docker inspect -f '{{ .Mounts }}' containerid

Get a shell on a running container so that you can run any commands that you want and examine it in any way you want:

docker exec -it inspiring_dhawan bash