How to inspect a container?

[yaqwsx]

Hello, I have just installed v3.1.1.3 and I would like to inspect a container. Although I see an inspect function in https://github.com/containers/podman-py/blob/master/podman/containers/__init__.py, it is not available on my local installation.

What do I miss? How can I inspect a container?

[jwhonce]

@yaqwsx

with PodmanClient() as client:
    container = client.containers.get(container_id)
    ...

[yaqwsx]

I probably miss something, but how do I get the same values for the container that podman inspect produces? Could you show me e.g., how to access the attribute "ExitCode", "State" or "StartedAt" from the snippet above?

[jwhonce]

@yaqwsx Sure.

with PodmanClient() as client:
    container = client.containers.get(container_id)
    print("Id:", container.id)
    print("ExitCode:", container.attrs["State"]["ExitCode"])
    print("State:", container.attrs["State"])
    print("StartedAt:", container.attrs["State"]["StartedAt"])

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html#operation/ContainerInspectLibpod provides the JSON payload from the API call which is loaded into the attrs dictionary. The podman-py documentation will be hosted on-line in the future.