Docker ps

External

• https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/ps/

Internal

• Container Lifecycle Operations

Overview

List running containers. The output contains:

• the container ID and name(s)
• the image the container was created from
• the command
• the container's status
• when long ago was created
• what ports it uses

Options

-a, --all

Lists all containers (stopped and running).

-q, --quiet

Only display the numeric container IDs.

-s

Provide size and virtual size information for a container.

The size represents the amount of data, on disk, that is used for the writable layer of the container.