To show the current status and image.
Filter containers docker.
Docker ps filter status your status.
Docker ps help usage.
A docker container image is a lightweight standalone executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application.
Where your status can be one of the following.
You can use a filter to locate containers that exited with status of 137 meaning a sigkill 9 killed them.
Created running restarting removing exited paused and dead.
Code runtime system tools system libraries and settings.
Docker is a containerization platform that allows you to quickly build test and deploy applications as portable self sufficient containers that can run virtually anywhere.
Docker ps options list containers options.
This is the most powerful command.
The docker container prune command allows you to remove containers based on a certain condition using the filter option.
Docker container inspect foo f state status config image running foo image latest.
Docker ps a filter exited 137 container id image command created status ports names b3e1c0ed5bfe ubuntu latest sleep 1000 12 seconds ago exited 137 5 seconds ago grave kowalevski a2eb5558d669 redis latest entrypoint sh redi 2 hours ago exited 137 2.
At the time of the writing of this article the currently supported filters are until and label.
See the docker image prune reference for more examples.
It is the de facto standard for container deployment and it is an essential tool for devops engineers and their continuous integration and delivery pipeline.
Other filtering expressions are available.
To first find the list of containers with a specific status you can use the filter option of the docker ps command in order to filter out those with the required status as follows.
Container images become containers at runtime and in the case of docker containers images become containers when they run on docker engine.
Description list containers usage docker container ls options options name shorthand default description all a show all containers default shows just running filter f filter output based on.
A all show all containers default shows just running f filter filter filter output based on conditions provided format string pretty print containers using a go template n last int show n last created containers includes all states default 1 l.
Filter by exit signal.