Reading a container's metadata

While doing debugging, automation, and so on, we will need the container's configuration details. Docker provides the container inspect command to get those easily.

Getting ready

Ensure that the Docker daemon is running on the host and can be connected through the Docker client.

How to do it...

To inspect a container, run the following command:

    $ docker container inspect [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]

We'll start a container and then inspect it, like so:

    $ ID=$(docker container run -d -i ubuntu /bin/bash)
    $...