How to List Docker Containers [All, Running, Stopped & More]
Blog post from Spacelift
Listing Docker containers is essential for monitoring their health, retrieving IDs or names, and checking port bindings. This tutorial covers various techniques for listing containers with different options to improve efficiency in managing containers. The main use cases include checking running containers, retrieving container details, viewing port bindings, and monitoring health check results. Docker provides several commands like docker ps, docker ps -a, docker ps -l, docker ps -n, docker ps -q, and docker ps --no-trunc for listing containers with different options. Additionally, the --format flag allows customization of container list output, while the --filter flag enables filtering by key/value field pairs. Docker also offers modern aliases like docker container list and docker container ls for listing containers and Compose projects, respectively.
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