Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

Add labels to the container's metadata by using the --label or -l option of the docker container run command, as follows:

    $ docker container run \
       --label com.example.container=docker-cookbook \ 
       label-demo date

Let's start a container without a label and start two others with the same label:

Now, if we run docker container ls -a without any filter, it will list all the containers. However, we can limit the list of containers to those we labelled by applying filtering to the docker container ls -a command by using the --filter or -f option: