How to get a Docker container's IP address from the host

Question

Is there a command I can run to get the container\'s IP address right from the host after a new container is created?

Basically, once Docker creates the container, I

Answer 1

To extend ko-dos' answer, here's an alias to list all container names and their IP addresses:

alias docker-ips='docker ps | tail -n +2 | while read -a a; do name=${a[$((${#a[@]}-1))]}; echo -ne "$name\t"; docker inspect $name | grep IPAddress | cut -d \" -f 4; done'

Answer 2

Here's is a solution that I developed today in Python, using the docker inspect container JSON output as the data source.

I have a lot of containers and infrastructures that I have to inspect, and I need to obtain basic network information from any container, in a fast and pretty manner. That's why I made this script.

IMPORTANT: Since the version 1.9, Docker allows you to create multiple networks and attach them to the containers.

#!/usr/bin/python

import json
import subprocess
import sys

try:
    CONTAINER = sys.argv[1]
except Exception as e:
    print "\n\tSpecify the container name, please."
    print "\t\tEx.:  script.py my_container\n"
    sys.exit(1)

# Inspecting container via Subprocess
proc = subprocess.Popen(["docker","inspect",CONTAINER],
                      stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                      stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)

out = proc.stdout.read()
json_data = json.loads(out)[0]

net_dict = {}
for network in json_data["NetworkSettings"]["Networks"].keys():
    net_dict['mac_addr']  = json_data["NetworkSettings"]["Networks"][network]["MacAddress"]
    net_dict['ipv4_addr'] = json_data["NetworkSettings"]["Networks"][network]["IPAddress"]
    net_dict['ipv4_net']  = json_data["NetworkSettings"]["Networks"][network]["IPPrefixLen"]
    net_dict['ipv4_gtw']  = json_data["NetworkSettings"]["Networks"][network]["Gateway"]
    net_dict['ipv6_addr'] = json_data["NetworkSettings"]["Networks"][network]["GlobalIPv6Address"]
    net_dict['ipv6_net']  = json_data["NetworkSettings"]["Networks"][network]["GlobalIPv6PrefixLen"]
    net_dict['ipv6_gtw']  = json_data["NetworkSettings"]["Networks"][network]["IPv6Gateway"]
    for item in net_dict:
        if net_dict[item] == "" or net_dict[item] == 0:
            net_dict[item] = "null"
    print "\n[%s]" % network
    print "\n{}{:>13} {:>14}".format(net_dict['mac_addr'],"IP/NETWORK","GATEWAY")
    print "--------------------------------------------"
    print "IPv4 settings:{:>16}/{:<5}  {}".format(net_dict['ipv4_addr'],net_dict['ipv4_net'],net_dict['ipv4_gtw'])
    print "IPv6 settings:{:>16}/{:<5}  {}".format(net_dict['ipv6_addr'],net_dict['ipv6_net'],net_dict['ipv6_gtw'])

The output is:

$ python docker_netinfo.py debian1

[frontend]

02:42:ac:12:00:02   IP/NETWORK        GATEWAY
--------------------------------------------
IPv4 settings:      172.18.0.2/16     172.18.0.1
IPv6 settings:            null/null   null

[backend]

02:42:ac:13:00:02   IP/NETWORK        GATEWAY
--------------------------------------------
IPv4 settings:      172.19.0.2/16     172.19.0.1
IPv6 settings:            null/null   null

Answer 3

If you installed Docker using Docker Toolbox, you can use the Kitematic application to get the container IP address:

1. Select the container
2. Click on Settings
3. Click in Ports tab.

Answer 4

Execute:

docker ps -a

This will display active docker images:

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS                       PORTS               NAMES
3b733ae18c1c        parzee/database     "/usr/lib/postgresql/"   6 minutes ago       Up 6 minutes                 5432/tcp            serene_babbage

Use the CONTAINER ID value:

docker inspect <CONTAINER ID> | grep -w "IPAddress" | awk '{ print $2 }' | head -n 1 | cut -d "," -f1

"172.17.0.2"

Answer 5

Docker inspect use to print all container ips and its respective names

docker ps -q | xargs -n 1 docker inspect --format '{{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}} {{ .Name }}' | sed 's/ \// /'

Answer 6

This will list down all the container IPs on the host:

sudo docker ps -aq | while read line;  do sudo docker inspect -f '{{.Name}} - {{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' $line ; done