How to determine if a process runs inside lxc/Docker?

Question

Is there any way to determine if a process (script) runs inside an lxc container (~ Docker runtime)? I know that some programs are able to detect whether they run inside a v

Answer 1

Handy Python function to check if running in Docker:

def in_docker():
    """ Returns: True if running in a Docker container, else False """
    with open('/proc/1/cgroup', 'rt') as ifh:
        return 'docker' in ifh.read()