How to list containers in Docker

Question

There's a command to list images, docker images, but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding docker containers.

Other than becoming root and looking into /var/lib/docker is there another way?

Answer 1

To show only running containers use the given command:

docker ps

To show all containers use the given command:

docker ps -a

To show the latest created container (includes all states) use the given command:

docker ps -l

To show n last created containers (includes all states) use the given command:

docker ps -n=-1

To display total file sizes use the given command:

docker ps -s