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

Maybe this do the trick:

if [ -z $(docker ps -q) ]; then
    echo "There is not process currently running"
else
    echo "There are processes running"
fi

Is that what you want? Hope it helps =)