from subprocess import getoutput # Goals: Loop: Select container (or exit), then menu to do stuff to container (start, stop, rm, list info, go back to main menu) def docker_info(): """ Gets info about all the Docker containers :return: Nested dict of containers info """ raw_info = getoutput('docker ps') # Header: "CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES" (with way more spaces) header = raw_info[:raw_info.find('\n')] header_temp = header header_indices = {} while ' ' in header_temp: # Split header temp = header_temp[header_temp.rfind(' ')+2:].strip() header_indices[temp] = header.find(temp) header_temp = header_temp[:header_temp.rfind(' ')].strip() header_indices[header[:header.find(' ')]] = 0 raw_info = raw_info[raw_info.find('\n')+1:] # Remove header (example above) info = {} # Find container names containers = [] for line in raw_info: containers.append(line.strip()[line.strip().rfind(' ')+1:]) # Fill in info for container in containers: info[container] = {} for column in header_indices: end_i = header_indices[column] + len(column) info[container][column] = header[header_indices[column]:end_i] debug = True if debug: print('Raw info:\n', raw_info) print('Header:\n', header) print('Header indices:\n', header_indices) print('Containers:\n', containers) print('Info:\n', info) return info docker_info()