I haven't found any way to order my results when using docker ps

In my case I want to order by .Ports

docker ps -a --format "table {{.ID}}t{{.Names}}t{{.Ports}}"

How do I order the result?

If it's enough to simply sort by output column, you can use the following:

 docker ps -a --format "table {{.ID}}t{{.Names}}t{{.Ports}}" | (read -r; printf "%sn" "$REPLY"; sort -k 3 )

I also added a code for skipping the table headers and sorting only ps output data.

Format and Order docker ps

List containers

docker ps

Synopsis

docker ps [--format="TEMPLATE"]



--format="TEMPLATE"

  Pretty-print containers using a Go template.

  Valid placeholders:

     .ID - Container ID

     .Image - Image ID

     .Command - Quoted command

     .CreatedAt - Time when the container was created.

     .RunningFor - Elapsed time since the container was started.

     .Ports - Exposed ports.

     .Status - Container status.

     .Size - Container disk size.

     .Names - Container names.

     .Labels - All labels assigned to the container.

     .Label - Value of a specific label for this container. For example {{.Label "com.docker.swarm.cpu"}}

     .Mounts - Names of the volumes mounted in this container.

Display containers with their commands

docker ps --format "{{.ID}}: {{.Command}}"

Display containers with their labels in a table

docker ps --format "table {{.ID}}t{{.Labels}}"

Display containers with their node label in a table

docker ps --format 'table {{.ID}}t{{(.Label "com.docker.swarm.node")}}'

I built a docker ps pretty print function that can be put into your .bash_profile or .bashrc file that works somewhat like an alias for docker ps. The output has color as well:

function docker () {

    if [[ "$@" == "ps -p" ]]; then

        command docker ps --all --format "{{.ID}}t{{.Names}}t{{.Image}}t{{.Ports}}t{{.Status}}" 

            | (echo -e "CONTAINER_IDtNAMEStIMAGEtPORTStSTATUS" && cat) 

            | awk '{printf "33[1;32m%st33[01;38;5;95;38;5;196m%st33[00m33[1;34m%st33[01;90m%s %s %s %s %s %s %s33[00mn", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10;}' 

            | column -s$'t' -t 

            | awk 'NR<2{print $0;next}{print $0 | "sort --key=2"}'

    else

        command docker "$@"

    fi

}

usage: $ docker ps -p.

EDIT: I added suggestions from the comments from @BrianVosburgh. Also, I kept forgetting to type -p so I switched the flag for this function to be -a, which is my regular usage of docker ps.