Why generated image name so long? Can I specify the name for the generated image?

[epic1219]

The generated image's name is too long, nearly take half of my screen. And when I run docker ps -a, the table is a mess cause one container's information takes two rows.

[samruddhikhandale]

Hi 👋

Are you creating the container with the dev container CLI? If so, have you tried using the --image-name option to explicitly specify the image name?

[epic1219]

Hi, thanks for the advice.
Actually I didn't use dev container CLI directly, it is managed by vscode. I just wrote .devcontainer/devcontainer.json with my customized image.

[joshspicer]

FWIW, I find that simply lowering the font a point or two makes the docker ps output a lot easier to read.

You may also be interested in the docker CLI's formatting docs, that could let you visualize your running containers more concisely by providing your own formatting string (you could totally at a shell alias to make this easier to type!)

For example:

[~]$ docker ps -a --format '{{.ID}} {{.Names}}'
9c32c5a54dd4 serene_sammet
0cab811e0910 compassionate_hawking
074572a675fa buildx_buildkit_remote0
671ae88f75a3 vigorous_wing
a1440cda9028 charming_maxwell
0938e87f3786 frosty_lumiere
2d82f65ff6ad happy_shockley
af33c67beebb buildkitd

[epic1219]

Yeah, that will do. Since you dropped the image name part. But I think image and container name should always be displayed.

[~]$ docker images -a --format 'table {{.Repository}}\t{{.Tag}}'
REPOSITORY                                                                      TAG
vsc-proj-3e60c91bdc1d909edd1fc361d8ecb0d31dd68062d6584622f55aa2423332e776-uid   latest
infra/db/mysql                                                                  8.0.36
debian                                                                          bookworm

[~]$ docker ps -a --format 'table {{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}\t{{.Image}}'
CONTAINER ID   NAMES               IMAGE
f5a0b785bc56   mysql8              infra/db/mysql:8.0.36
fb83dbb6dd63   charming_shockley   vsc-proj-3e60c91bdc1d909edd1fc361d8ecb0d31dd68062d6584622f55aa2423332e776-uid:latest

[Mortiemi]

Yeah, that will do. Since you dropped the image name part. But I think image and container name should always be displayed.

[~]$ docker images -a --format 'table {{.Repository}}\t{{.Tag}}'

REPOSITORY                                                                      TAG

vsc-proj-3e60c91bdc1d909edd1fc361d8ecb0d31dd68062d6584622f55aa2423332e776-uid   latest

infra/db/mysql                                                                  8.0.36

debian                                                                          bookworm



[~]$ docker ps -a --format 'table {{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}\t{{.Image}}'

CONTAINER ID   NAMES               IMAGE

f5a0b785bc56   mysql8              infra/db/mysql:8.0.36

fb83dbb6dd63   charming_shockley   vsc-proj-3e60c91bdc1d909edd1fc361d8ecb0d31dd68062d6584622f55aa2423332e776-uid:latest

[Mortiemi]

Yeah, that will do. Since you dropped the image name part. But I think image and container name should always be displayed.

[~]$ docker images -a --format 'table {{.Repository}}\t{{.Tag}}'

REPOSITORY                                                                      TAG

vsc-proj-3e60c91bdc1d909edd1fc361d8ecb0d31dd68062d6584622f55aa2423332e776-uid   latest

infra/db/mysql                                                                  8.0.36

debian                                                                          bookworm



[~]$ docker ps -a --format 'table {{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}\t{{.Image}}'

CONTAINER ID   NAMES               IMAGE

f5a0b785bc56   mysql8              infra/db/mysql:8.0.36

fb83dbb6dd63   charming_shockley   vsc-proj-3e60c91bdc1d909edd1fc361d8ecb0d31dd68062d6584622f55aa2423332e776-uid:latest