How to display and inspect container's configuration using the "docker container inspect" command?

The "docker container inspect" command allows you to display and inspect the container's configuration in JSON formation.

1. Create a new container from the "openjdk" image:

fyicenter$ docker container create --name java --tty --interactive openjdk

2. Run the "docker container inspect" command on the container:

fyicenter$ docker container inspect java

[
    {
        "Id": "2c513219b727c6da168b3e197ef91cdb15da6d3d43fb3d7383b453c292c2f212",
        "Path": "/hello",
        "Args": [],
        "State": {
            "Status": "exited",
            "Running": false,
            "Paused": false,
            "Restarting": false,
            "OOMKilled": false,
            "Dead": false,
            "Pid": 0,
            "ExitCode": 0,
            "Error": "",
...
            "Networks": {
                "bridge": {
                    "IPAMConfig": null,
                    "Links": null,
                    "Aliases": null,
                    "NetworkID": "86e46e86a6784ce434515db2f7215a11c...",
                    "EndpointID": "a9cd2f10f9e61af91442c3a2a0174b8d0...",
                    "Gateway": "172.17.0.1",
                    "IPAddress": "172.17.0.3",
                    "IPPrefixLen": 16,
                    "IPv6Gateway": "",
                    "GlobalIPv6Address": "",
                    "GlobalIPv6PrefixLen": 0,
                    "MacAddress": "02:42:ac:11:00:03",
                    "DriverOpts": null
                }
            }
        }
    }
]

You can read the output to see how the container is defined.

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