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About

inspect returns a JSON document containing useful configuration and status information for the specified:

Syntax

docker inspect nostalgic_morse

[{
    "ID": "bc533791f3f500b280a9626688bc79e342e3ea0d528efe3a86a51ecb28ea20",
    "Created": "2014-05-26T05:52:40.808952951Z",
    "Path": "python",
    "Args": [
       "app.py"
    ],
    "Config": {
       "Hostname": "bc533791f3f5",
       "Domainname": "",
       "User": "",
. . .

Filtering the output

Example: get only the IP: 

docker inspect -f '{{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' nostalgic_morse

172.17.0.5