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NAME
docker-network-inspect - Display detailed information on one or more
networks
SYNOPSIS
docker network inspect [OPTIONS] NETWORK [NETWORK...]
DESCRIPTION
Returns information about one or more networks. By default, this com-
mand renders all results in a JSON object. For example, if you connect
two containers to the default bridge network:
$ sudo docker run -itd --name=container1 busybox
f2870c98fd504370fb86e59f32cd0753b1ac9b69b7d80566ffc7192a82b3ed27
$ sudo docker run -itd --name=container2 busybox
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The network inspect command shows the containers, by id, in its re-
sults. You can specify an alternate format to execute a given template
for each result. Go's text/template ⟨https://pkg.go.dev/text/template⟩
package describes all the details of the format.
$ sudo docker network inspect bridge
[
{
"Name": "bridge",
"Id": "b2b1a2cba717161d984383fd68218cf70bbbd17d328496885f7c921333228b0f",
"Scope": "local",
"Driver": "bridge",
"IPAM": {
"Driver": "default",
"Config": [
{
"Subnet": "172.17.42.1/16",
"Gateway": "172.17.42.1"
}
]
},
"Internal": false,
"Ingress": false,
"Containers": {
"bda12f8922785d1f160be70736f26c1e331ab8aaf8ed8d56728508f2e2fd4727": {
"Name": "container2",
"EndpointID": "0aebb8fcd2b282abe1365979536f21ee4ceaf3ed56177c628eae9f706e00e019",
"MacAddress": "02:42:ac:11:00:02",
"IPv4Address": "172.17.0.2/16",
"IPv6Address": ""
},
"f2870c98fd504370fb86e59f32cd0753b1ac9b69b7d80566ffc7192a82b3ed27": {
"Name": "container1",
"EndpointID": "a00676d9c91a96bbe5bcfb34f705387a33d7cc365bac1a29e4e9728df92d10ad",
"MacAddress": "02:42:ac:11:00:01",
"IPv4Address": "172.17.0.1/16",
"IPv6Address": ""
}
},
"Options": {
"com.docker.network.bridge.default_bridge": "true",
"com.docker.network.bridge.enable_icc": "true",
"com.docker.network.bridge.enable_ip_masquerade": "true",
"com.docker.network.bridge.host_binding_ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
"com.docker.network.bridge.name": "docker0",
"com.docker.network.driver.mtu": "1500"
}
}
]
Returns the information about the user-defined network:
$ docker network create simple-network
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$ docker network inspect simple-network
[
{
"Name": "simple-network",
"Id": "69568e6336d8c96bbf57869030919f7c69524f71183b44d80948bd3927c87f6a",
"Scope": "local",
"Driver": "bridge",
"IPAM": {
"Driver": "default",
"Config": [
{
"Subnet": "172.22.0.0/16",
"Gateway": "172.22.0.1"
}
]
},
"Containers": {},
"Options": {}
}
]
docker network inspect --verbose for swarm mode overlay networks shows
service-specific details such as the service's VIP and port mappings.
It also shows IPs of service tasks, and the IPs of the nodes where the
tasks are running.
Following is an example output for an overlay network ov1 that has one
service s1 attached to. service s1 in this case has three replicas.
$ docker network inspect --verbose ov1
[
{
"Name": "ov1",
"Id": "ybmyjvao9vtzy3oorxbssj13b",
"Created": "2017-03-13T17:04:39.776106792Z",
"Scope": "swarm",
"Driver": "overlay",
"EnableIPv6": false,
"IPAM": {
"Driver": "default",
"Options": null,
"Config": [
{
"Subnet": "10.0.0.0/24",
"Gateway": "10.0.0.1"
}
]
},
"Internal": false,
"Attachable": false,
"Ingress": false,
"Containers": {
"020403bd88a15f60747fd25d1ad5fa1272eb740e8a97fc547d8ad07b2f721c5e": {
"Name": "s1.1.pjn2ik0sfgkfzed3h0s00gs9o",
"EndpointID": "ad16946f416562d658f3bb30b9830d73ad91ccf6feae44411269cd0ff674714e",
"MacAddress": "02:42:0a:00:00:04",
"IPv4Address": "10.0.0.4/24",
"IPv6Address": ""
}
},
"Options": {
"com.docker.network.driver.overlay.vxlanid_list": "4097"
},
"Labels": {},
"Peers": [
{
"Name": "net-3-5d3cfd30a58c",
"IP": "192.168.33.13"
},
{
"Name": "net-1-6ecbc0040a73",
"IP": "192.168.33.11"
},
{
"Name": "net-2-fb80208efd75",
"IP": "192.168.33.12"
}
],
"Services": {
"s1": {
"VIP": "10.0.0.2",
"Ports": [],
"LocalLBIndex": 257,
"Tasks": [
{
"Name": "s1.2.q4hcq2aiiml25ubtrtg4q1txt",
"EndpointID": "040879b027e55fb658e8b60ae3b87c6cdac7d291e86a190a3b5ac6567b26511a",
"EndpointIP": "10.0.0.5",
"Info": {
"Host IP": "192.168.33.11"
}
},
{
"Name": "s1.3.yawl4cgkp7imkfx469kn9j6lm",
"EndpointID": "106edff9f120efe44068b834e1cddb5b39dd4a3af70211378b2f7a9e562bbad8",
"EndpointIP": "10.0.0.3",
"Info": {
"Host IP": "192.168.33.12"
}
},
{
"Name": "s1.1.pjn2ik0sfgkfzed3h0s00gs9o",
"EndpointID": "ad16946f416562d658f3bb30b9830d73ad91ccf6feae44411269cd0ff674714e",
"EndpointIP": "10.0.0.4",
"Info": {
"Host IP": "192.168.33.13"
}
}
]
}
}
}
]
OPTIONS
-f, --format="" Format output using a custom template: 'json':
Print in JSON format 'TEMPLATE': Print output using the given
Go template. Refer to https://docs.docker.com/go/formatting/ for more
information about formatting output with templates
-v, --verbose[=false] Verbose output for diagnostics
SEE ALSO
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