チラシの裏: PythonでDockerを使う

> sudo pip install docker-py
..
> python
>>> import docker
>>> c = docker.Client(base_url='unix://var/run/docker.sock', version='1.8', timeout=10)
>>> c.info()
{u'KernelVersion': u'3.2.0-4-amd64', u'NFd': 10, u'MemoryLimit': 0, u'InitSha1': u'', u'SwapLimit': 0, u'Driver': u'aufs', u'IndexServerAddress': u'https://index.docker.io/v1/', u'NGoroutines': 15, u'Images': 109, u'InitPath': u'/usr/local/bin/docker', u'Containers': 11, u'LXCVersion': u'0.8.0-rc1', u'Debug': 0, u'NEventsListener': 221, u'DriverStatus': [[u'Root Dir', u'/var/lib/docker/aufs'], [u'Dirs', u'135']], u'IPv4Forwarding': 1}
>>> help(c.containers)
Help on method containers in module docker.client:

containers(self, quiet=False, all=False, trunc=True, latest=False, since=None, before=None, limit=-1) method of docker.client.Client instance

(注意: 上の場所はLESSで表示されたり環境によって表示され方変わる)
>>> c.containers(all=True)
[{u'Command': u'do not look at me',
  u'Created': 1391059918,
  u'Id': u'97115535aacbba9fcf19bbd9bc8ca9aac66132f79acf2820d6225a554b06191d',
  u'Image': u'griflet:oajxuu024euvttj0ar0s-23b235cf82b0301f864f6ad100a2b3245b7dca7d',
  u'Names': [u'/drunk_heisenberg'],
  u'Ports': None,
  u'SizeRootFs': 0,
  u'SizeRw': 0,
  u'Status': u'Exit 0'},
 {u'Command': u'do not look at me',
  u'Created': 1391059896,
  u'Id': u'5c796656a414673ead3c74aaafd95ae6f80c00125eda8cf01ea826b76eca7586',
  u'Image': u'54055ba1f6fe',
  u'Names': [u'/pensive_galileo'],
  u'Ports': None,
  u'SizeRootFs': 0,
  u'SizeRw': 0,
  u'Status': u'Exit 0'},
 {u'Command': u'do NOT look at me :-)',
..

(docker ps です基本的に)

ipythonだと"c."の後でTabぶち込むと候補が出てくるので、中途半端なシェル環境より分かりやすい操作になるかもしれません。