How to install “ifconfig” command in my ubuntu docker image?

Question

I\'ve just installed ubuntu docker image, when I execute \"ifconfig\" it says there\'s no such command, I tried apt-get install by there\'s no package named \"ifconfig\"(I can i

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install iproute2 then run ip addr show

it works..

Answer 2

From within a Dockerfile something like the following should do the trick:

RUN apt-get update && \
     apt-get install -y net-tools

From memory it's best practice to combine the update and the package installation lines to prevent docker caching the update step which can result in out-dated packages being installed.

Installing it via the CLI or a shell script:

apt-get update && apt-get install net-tools

Answer 3

I came here because I was trying to use ifconfig on the container to find its IPAaddress and there was no ifconfig. If you really need ifconfig on the container go with @vishnu-narayanan answer above, however you may be able to get the information you need by using docker inspect on the host:

docker inspect <containerid>

There is lots of good stuff in the output including IPAddress of container:

"Networks": {
    "bridge": {
        "IPAMConfig": null,
        "Links": null,
        "Aliases": null,
        "NetworkID": "12345FAKEID",
        "EndpointID": "12345FAKEENDPOINTID",
        "Gateway": "172.17.0.1",
        "IPAddress": "172.17.0.3",
        "IPPrefixLen": 16,
        "IPv6Gateway": "",
        "GlobalIPv6Address": "",
        "GlobalIPv6PrefixLen": 0,
        "MacAddress": "01:02:03:04:05:06",
        "DriverOpts": null
    }
}