Get Detailed Information About Docker Container

When working with Docker, it can be useful to get detailed information about Docker containers. It includes container creation date, state, host configuration, network settings, mounts, etc. This tutorial explains how to do that.

To get detailed information about a container by its ID or name, docker container command with inspect argument can be used. For example, the following command outputs information about a container named nginx:

docker container inspect nginx

An example of part of the output:

[
    {
        "Id": "7169536fee33730fb761d33f2ef14fce9c178f63607ead6103e70fbe9d3527fb",
        "Created": "2022-11-20T02:18:24.307013746Z",
        "Path": "/docker-entrypoint.sh",
        "Args": [
            "nginx",
            "-g",
            "daemon off;"
        ],
        "State": {
            "Status": "exited",
            "Running": false,
...
]