ruby on rails - How to get container id of running container programmatically (on Docker)? -
i have app in docker setup. run script on host run commands in existing (running container). if know container id, ... it's 50250e572090 ... can run script this for example ... #!/usr/bin/env bash docker exec 50250e572090 example_command_1_here docker exec 50250e572090 example_command_2_here docker exec 50250e572090 example_command_3_here docker exec 50250e572090 example_command_4_here it's working great! ... thing here know image name ... not container id. find container id ... use docker ps ... ... container id image command created status ports names 50250e572090 aws_beanstalk/staging-app:latest "/sbin/my_init" 29 hours ago 29 hours 80/tcp, 443/tcp drunk_bardeen it's output isn't can use (pipe through). command can run container id output can piped script? or it's clear i'm trying achieve ... there better way? ps...