Get Detailed Information About Docker Network

When working with Docker, it can be useful to get detailed information about Docker networks. It includes network creation date, scope, driver, whether IPv6 is enabled and other information. This tutorial explains how to do that.

To get detailed information about network by its ID or name, docker network command with inspect argument can be used. For example, the following command displays information about host network:

docker network inspect host

An example of part of the output:

[
    {
        "Name": "host",
        "Id": "6dac39c276e18ca6263dc26466e2a4537f42e7b5644b6b5d5dba02c8e9fc9ea6",
        "Created": "2022-11-20T02:10:56.200149805Z",
        "Scope": "local",
        "Driver": "host",
        "EnableIPv6": false,
        "IPAM": {
            "Driver": "default",
            "Options": null,
            "Config": []
        },
...
]