Is it possible to show the restart policy of a running Docker container?

Question

When I create containers I\'m specifying a restart policy, but this is not shown in docker ps, and it doesn\'t appear any format string shows this either.

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Answer 1

You can get this via docker inspect.

Just the policy name:

docker inspect --format '{{.HostConfig.RestartPolicy.Name}}' 

Or the entire policy (including e.g. max retry count):

docker inspect --format '{{json .HostConfig.RestartPolicy}}'