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Shows the current status of the BuildKit builder. Without flags a human-readable table is displayed; with --format json the status is returned as JSON.

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Usage

container builder status [--format <format>] [--quiet] [--debug]

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Options

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--format
string
default:"table"
Format of the output (values: json, table)
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-q, --quiet
boolean
Only output the container ID
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--debug
boolean
Enable debug output

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Examples

# Check builder status
container builder status

# Get builder status in JSON format
container builder status --format json

# Get only the builder container ID
container builder status --quiet
The builder container runs BuildKit and is automatically started when you run container build for the first time.

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