How to show specific column with docker ps command

Refs

• https://docs.docker.com/config/formatting/

Prerequisite

• jq command

First Example

# docker ps --format "table {{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}\t{{.Status}}"
CONTAINER ID   NAMES              STATUS
6649ac512517   jupyter-notebook   Up 15 hours (healthy)
adc3f126a364   cadvisor           Up 3 weeks (healthy)
45c106f51a6e   mailserver         Up 3 weeks (healthy)
f34501c9a42e   docker_exporter    Up 32 hours

What column name is available?

• Get available column names with json key name!

# docker container ls --format='{{json .}}' | jq -rcs '.[0] | keys[]'
Command
CreatedAt
ID
Image
Labels
LocalVolumes
Mounts
Names
Networks
Ports
RunningFor
Size
State
Status

Second Examples

# docker ps --format "table {{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}\t{{.Status}}\t{{.Size}}"
CONTAINER ID   NAMES              STATUS                  SIZE
6649ac512517   jupyter-notebook   Up 15 hours (healthy)   3.27MB (virtual 4.41GB)
adc3f126a364   cadvisor           Up 3 weeks (healthy)    0B (virtual 80.8MB)
45c106f51a6e   mailserver         Up 3 weeks (healthy)    764kB (virtual 629MB)
f34501c9a42e   docker_exporter    Up 32 hours             0B (virtual 57.2MB)

# docker ps --format "table {{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}\t{{.Status}}\t{{.Image}}\t{{.Size}}"
CONTAINER ID   NAMES              STATUS                  IMAGE
6649ac512517   jupyter-notebook   Up 15 hours (healthy)   jupyter_20240419/scipy-notebook:2023-08-19
adc3f126a364   cadvisor           Up 3 weeks (healthy)    gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor:v0.49.1
45c106f51a6e   mailserver         Up 3 weeks (healthy)    ghcr.io/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver:latest
f34501c9a42e   docker_exporter    Up 32 hours             prometheusnet/docker_exporter

# docker ps --format "table {{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}\t{{.Ports}}"

# docker ps --no-trunc --format "table {{.Names}}\t{{.Mounts}}"
NAMES              MOUNTS
pihole             /root/docker-compose/etc-dnsmasq.d,/root/docker-compose/etc-pihole
postgres_na24.2    /docker-postgres/na24.2/data
postgres_na23.4    /docker-postgres/na23.4/data
postgres_oo24.1    /docker-postgres/oo24.1/data
jupyter-notebook
jira2              jiraVolume
cadvisor           /var/lib/docker,/var/run,/dev/disk,/,/sys
mailserver         /etc/localtime,/docker-data/dms/config,/docker-data/dms/mail-logs,/docker-data/dms/mail-data,/docker-data/dms/mail-state