title: “secret inspect” description: “The secret inspect command description and usage” keywords: [“secret, inspect”]

secret inspect

Usage:  docker secret inspect [OPTIONS] SECRET [SECRET...]

Display detailed information on one or more secrets

Options:
  -f, --format string   Format the output using the given Go template
      --help            Print usage

Description

Inspects the specified secret. This command has to be run targeting a manager node.

By default, this renders all results in a JSON array. If a format is specified, the given template will be executed for each result.

Go's text/template package describes all the details of the format.

For detailed information about using secrets, refer to manage sensitive data with Docker secrets.

Examples

Inspect a secret by name or ID

You can inspect a secret, either by its name, or ID

For example, given the following secret:

$ docker secret ls

ID                          NAME                CREATED             UPDATED
eo7jnzguqgtpdah3cm5srfb97   my_secret           3 minutes ago       3 minutes ago

$ docker secret inspect secret.json

[
    {
        "ID": "eo7jnzguqgtpdah3cm5srfb97",
        "Version": {
            "Index": 17
        },
        "CreatedAt": "2017-03-24T08:15:09.735271783Z",
        "UpdatedAt": "2017-03-24T08:15:09.735271783Z",
        "Spec": {
            "Name": "my_secret",
            "Labels": {
                "env": "dev",
                "rev": "20170324"
            }
        }
    }
]

Formatting

You can use the --format option to obtain specific information about a secret. The following example command outputs the creation time of the secret.