Filter by exit signal.
Filter containers docker.
To see all containers on the docker host including stopped containers use docker ps a you may be surprised how many containers exist especially on a development system.
When you stop a container it is not automatically removed unless you started it with the rm flag.
A docker container image is a lightweight standalone executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application.
This is the most powerful command.
Other filtering expressions are available.
Docker ps options list containers options.
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.
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.
You can use a filter to locate containers that exited with status of 137 meaning a sigkill 9 killed them.
Docker container inspect foo f state status config image running foo image latest.
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.
Container images become containers at runtime and in the case of docker containers images become containers when they run on docker engine.
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.
To show the current status and image.
The docker container prune command allows you to remove containers based on a certain condition using the filter option.
Where your status can be one of the following.
Docker ps help usage.
Created running restarting removing exited paused and dead.
At the time of the writing of this article the currently supported filters are until and label.
Code runtime system tools system libraries and settings.
See the docker image prune reference for more examples.
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.
