Customize your docker ps output

docker ps is nifty, you can even customize the outout to suit your needs.

My customization gives me the following output (squashed for readability):

$ docker ps

NAMES     CONTAINER ID  IMAGE       STATUS      NETWORKS  PORTS
registry  81bbacaeb8b9  registry:2  Up 2 weeks  bridge    0.0.0.0:5000->5000/tcp

The output is defined in: $HOME/.docker/config.json, like so:

{
    "psFormat": "table {{.Names}}\\t{{.ID}}\\t{{.Image}}\\t{{.Status}}\\t{{.Networks}}\\t{{.Ports}}",
}

You can also specify this on the fly:

$ docker ps --format "{{.Names}}"

Please see the documentation for more information.

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