We can use python's subprocess module for this, however using docker python-sdk would be more convenient way.
You can install it via pip:
$ pip install docker Then we can use a module like below:
# check_container.py from typing import Optional import docker def is_container_running(container_name: str) -> Optional[bool]: """Verify the status of a container by it's name :param container_name: the name of the container :return: boolean or None """ RUNNING = "running" # Connect to Docker using the default socket or the configuration # in your environment docker_client = docker.from_env() # Or give configuration # docker_socket = "unix://var/run/docker.sock" # docker_client = docker.DockerClient(docker_socket) try: container = docker_client.containers.get(container_name) except docker.errors.NotFound as exc: print(f"Check container name!\n{exc.explanation}") else: container_state = container.attrs["State"] return container_state["Status"] == RUNNING if __name__ == "__main__": container_name = "localredis" result = is_container_running(container_name) print(result) After you run you will get:
$ python check_container.py True If you use it with not-existing container name it will give:
$ python check_container.py Check container name! No such container: redislocal None All done!
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