github.com/yogeshlonkar/moby@v1.13.2-0.20201203103638-c0b64beaea94/docs/reference/commandline/secret_inspect.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: "secret inspect" 3 description: "The secret inspect command description and usage" 4 keywords: ["secret, inspect"] 5 --- 6 7 <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/docker Github 8 repository at https://github.com/docker/docker/. Make all 9 pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in 10 another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will 11 periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull 12 requests which include edits to this file in other repositories 13 will be rejected. 14 --> 15 16 # secret inspect 17 18 ```Markdown 19 Usage: docker secret inspect [OPTIONS] SECRET [SECRET...] 20 21 Display detailed information on one or more secrets 22 23 Options: 24 -f, --format string Format the output using the given Go template 25 --help Print usage 26 ``` 27 28 ## Description 29 30 Inspects the specified secret. This command has to be run targeting a manager 31 node. 32 33 By default, this renders all results in a JSON array. If a format is specified, 34 the given template will be executed for each result. 35 36 Go's [text/template](http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/) package 37 describes all the details of the format. 38 39 For detailed information about using secrets, refer to [manage sensitive data with Docker secrets](https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/secrets/). 40 41 ## Examples 42 43 ### Inspect a secret by name or ID 44 45 You can inspect a secret, either by its *name*, or *ID* 46 47 For example, given the following secret: 48 49 ```bash 50 $ docker secret ls 51 ID NAME CREATED UPDATED 52 mhv17xfe3gh6xc4rij5orpfds secret.json 2016-10-27 23:25:43.909181089 +0000 UTC 2016-10-27 23:25:43.909181089 +0000 UTC 53 ``` 54 55 ```none 56 $ docker secret inspect secret.json 57 58 [ 59 { 60 "ID": "mhv17xfe3gh6xc4rij5orpfds", 61 "Version": { 62 "Index": 1198 63 }, 64 "CreatedAt": "2016-10-27T23:25:43.909181089Z", 65 "UpdatedAt": "2016-10-27T23:25:43.909181089Z", 66 "Spec": { 67 "Name": "secret.json" 68 } 69 } 70 ] 71 ``` 72 73 ### Formatting 74 75 You can use the --format option to obtain specific information about a 76 secret. The following example command outputs the creation time of the 77 secret. 78 79 ```bash 80 $ docker secret inspect --format='{{.CreatedAt}}' mhv17xfe3gh6xc4rij5orpfds 81 82 2016-10-27 23:25:43.909181089 +0000 UTC 83 ``` 84 85 86 ## Related commands 87 88 * [secret create](secret_create.md) 89 * [secret ls](secret_ls.md) 90 * [secret rm](secret_rm.md)