diff --git a/lib/lxc/container.rb b/lib/lxc/container.rb
index 5be9a0e..a66991e 100644
--- a/lib/lxc/container.rb
+++ b/lib/lxc/container.rb
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ class Container
 
     # RegEx pattern for extracting the container state from the "lxc-info"
     # command output.
-    REGEX_STATE = /^state:\s+([\w]+)$/
+    REGEX_STATE = /^state:\s+([\w]+)$/i
 
     # RegEx pattern for extracting the container PID from the "lxc-info"
     # command output.
-    REGEX_PID = /^pid:\s+([-\d]+)$/
+    REGEX_PID = /^pid:\s+([-\d]+)$/i
 
     # Returns the container name
     #