How to obtain container id base on docker image name via command line ?

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If I ran sudo doccker ps I got this

[user@vm1 ~]$ sudo docker ps 

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                          COMMAND                  CREATED                  STATUS                  PORTS                        NAMES
e8ff73dec1d5        portal-mhn:latest         "nginx -g 'daemon of…"   43 minutes ago           Up 43 minutes  portal-mhn_portal-mhn.1.4rsfv94wy97gb333q3kfyxz32
62a7cf09d7bf        portal-admin:latest       "nginx -g 'daemon of…"   43 minutes ago           Up 43 minutes  portal-admin_portal-admin.1.s62iep4gl5g5oj2hrap14kz1t

I'm trying to grab the container ID base on ImageName.

Ex. Is there away to grab the container id of portal-mhn:latest via a command line ? which is e8ff73dec1d5

Filter by IMAGE name `sudo docker ps -aqf "ancestor=portal-mhn:latest "` https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34496882/get-docker-container-id-from-container-name — Kevin Cui, Jan 08 '19 at 20:40

lee-pai-long · Accepted Answer · 2022-05-18T16:33:44.713

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If you want to get the container id based on the image name this should work:

$ docker ps | grep '<image_name>' | awk '{ print $1 }'

Or even:

$ docker ps | awk '/<image_name>/ { print $1 }'

As others have suggested you can also directly filter by the image name using the ancestor filter:

$ docker ps -aqf "ancestor=<image_name>"

This has the advantage of being string on the image_name value instead of looking for a matching pattern. Thanks to @kevin-cui and @yu-chen.

edited May 18 '22 at 16:33

answered Jan 08 '19 at 20:50

lee-pai-long

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Thank you. Work perfect – Tiffany Soun Jan 18 '19 at 20:08

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 08 '19 at 18:57

The accepted answer works, but you might possibly have a misnamed container name that has postgres in its name but is actually running a totally different image, since the answer only uses grep to look for matching lines.

You can use Docker's built in filter flag:

docker ps --filter "ancestor=postgres" -q

as an alternative. The -q flag indicates to only return the container ID (quiet mode).

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 18 '19 at 21:11

I needed only to obtain the latest running container id by image name, including stopped containers:

docker ps -a | grep 'django-content-services:' -m 1 | awk '{ print $1 }'

In docker -a to include all containers (even stopped). In grep, -m so grep only matches the first case. Cheers!

How to obtain container id base on docker image name via command line ?

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