Question
How to get the IP address of a running Docker from the host?
- Posted on December 28, 2020
- DockerContainerLinux BasicsLinux CommandsUbuntu
Asked by Bobby Iliev
Recently someone asked me how to get the IP address of a running Docker from the Docker host directly so I decided to put together a few examples of how to do that!
Hope that this helps!
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There are a few ways to get the IP address of a specific docker container. I will go through a couple of them.
The first thing you need to do is either get the ID or the name of your container. You can do that with the following command:
- docker ps
Once you get the container ID or name, you could use one of the following commands in order to get the IP address of your container:
- Using native Docker syntax
- docker inspect -f '{{range.NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' container_id
As this is quite a long command, here are a couple of alternatives.
- Using
grep
- docker inspect container_id | grep IPAddress
- Using
jq
docker inspect container_id | jq .[0].NetworkSettings.Networks[].IPAddress
For more information, make sure to check out the official documentation here:
https://docs.docker.com/network/
I hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
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