CoreOS - get docker container name by PID?
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Solution 1
Something like this?
$ docker ps -q | xargs docker inspect --format '{{.State.Pid}}, {{.ID}}' | grep "^${PID},"
[EDIT]
Disclaimer This is for "normal" linux. I don't know anything useful about CoreOS, so this may or may not work there.
Solution 2
Because @Mitar's comment suggestion deserves to be a full answer:
To get container ID you can use:
cat /proc/<process-pid>/cgroup
Then to convert the container ID to docker container name:
docker inspect --format '{{.Name}}' "${containerId}" | sed 's/^\///'
Solution 3
I use the following script to get the container name for any host PID of a process inside a container:
#!/bin/bash -e
# Prints the name of the container inside which the process with a PID on the host is.
function getName {
local pid="$1"
if [[ -z "$pid" ]]; then
echo "Missing host PID argument."
exit 1
fi
if [ "$pid" -eq "1" ]; then
echo "Unable to resolve host PID to a container name."
exit 2
fi
# ps returns values potentially padded with spaces, so we pass them as they are without quoting.
local parentPid="$(ps -o ppid= -p $pid)"
local containerId="$(ps -o args= -f -p $parentPid | grep docker-containerd-shim | cut -d ' ' -f 2)"
if [[ -n "$containerId" ]]; then
local containerName="$(docker inspect --format '{{.Name}}' "$containerId" | sed 's/^\///')"
if [[ -n "$containerName" ]]; then
echo "$containerName"
else
echo "$containerId"
fi
else
getName "$parentPid"
fi
}
getName "$1"
Solution 4
... as a one-liner as well
PID=20168; sudo docker ps --no-trunc | grep $(cat /proc/$PID/cgroup | grep -oE '[0-9a-f]{64}' | head -1) | sed 's/^.* //'
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Comments
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Nimrod007 almost 2 years
I have a list of PID's and I need to get their docker container name. Going the other direction is easy ... get PID of docker container by image name:
$ docker inspect --format '{{.State.Pid}}' {SOME DOCKER NAME}
Any idea how to get the name by PID?
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Nimrod007 about 10 yearsif only docker name needed can add | awk '{print $2}' in the end :) thanks
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David over 9 yearsFor my current docker version I had to change {{.ID}} to {{.Id}}, seems the docker inspect output has changed slightly!
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Mitar over 7 yearsWhich version of Docker are you using?
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Mitar over 7 yearsYou can also use
cat /proc/<host pid>/cgroup
to get container ID, and then usedocker inspect --format '{{.Name}}' "$containerId" | sed 's/^\///'
to get name from ID. -
Markus Kasten almost 7 yearsAs a one-liner, using @Mitar 's idea:
docker inspect --format '{{.Name}}' "$(cat /proc/$PID/cgroup |head -n 1 |cut -d / -f 3)" | sed 's/^\///'
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wheeler over 6 yearsWhat is the
${PID}
in the grep regex do? I just tried this and the grep is not working. -
ivant over 3 years@wheeler, it's the PID you're looking for. For example, if you're looking for PID 123, then you can
export PID=123
before running the above command. Or you can just replace${PID}
with123
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Ritschie about 3 yearsor even shorter PID=20168; sudo docker ps --no-trunc | grep $(grep -oE '[0-9a-f]{64}' /proc/$PID/cgroup | head -1) | sed 's/^.* //'
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Ritschie about 3 yearsor even minimal faster :) sudo docker ps --no-trunc | grep $(head -1 /proc/$PID/cgroup | grep -oE '[0-9a-f]{64}') | sed 's/^.* //' a little explanation: --no-trunc shows the container-id in a 64Bit Hash containing only Numbers and Characters from "a" to "f" grep -oE '[0-9a-f]{64}' greps exactly for a 64 Bit hash and prints out the hash only
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Hoppeduppeanut about 3 yearsPlease don't include additional information to your answer as a comment. Instead, please edit your answer to include this information in the answer itself, using formatted-text.