An API client for docker written in Python

docker.Client(base_url='unix://var/run/docker.sock', version="1.4")
Client class. base_url refers to the protocol+hostname+port where the docker server is hosted. Version is the version of the API the client will use.

• c.build(path=None, tag=None, quiet=False, fileobj=None, nocache=False, rm=False)
  Similar to the docker build command. Either path or fileobj needs to be set. path can be a local path (to a directory containing a Dockerfile) or a remote URL. fileobj must be a readable file-like object to a Dockerfile.

• c.commit(container, repository=None, tag=None, message=None, author=None, conf=None)
  Identical to the docker commit command.

• c.containers(quiet=False, all=False, trunc=True, latest=False, since=None,before=None, limit=-1)
  Identical to the docker ps command.

• c.copy(container, resource)
  Identical to the docker cp command.

• c.create_container(image, command=None, hostname=None, user=None, detach=False,stdin_open=False, tty=False, mem_limit=0, ports=None, environment=None, dns=None,volumes=None, volumes_from=None, privileged=False)
  Creates a container that can then be started. Parameters are similar to those for the docker run command except it doesn't support the attach options (-a)
  In order to create volumes that can be rebinded at start time, use the following syntax: volumes={"/srv": "" }. The ports parameter is a dictionary whose key is the port to expose and the value is an empty dictionary: ports={"2181/tcp": {}}. Note, this will simply expose the ports in the container, but does not make them available on the host. See start below.

• c.diff(container)
  Identical to the docker diff command.

• c.export(container)
  Identical to the docker export command.

• c.history(image)
  Identical to the docker history command.

• c.images(name=None, quiet=False, all=False, viz=False)
  Identical to the docker images command.

• c.import_image(src, repository=None, tag=None)
  Identical to the docker import command. If src is a string or unicode string, it will be treated as a URL to fetch the image from. To import an image from the local machine, src needs to be a file-like object or bytes collection. To import from a tarball use your absolute path to your tarball. To load arbitrary data as tarball use whatever you want as src and your tarball content in data.

• c.info()
  Identical to the docker info command.

• c.insert(url, path)
  Identical to the docker insert command.

• c.inspect_container(container)
  Identical to the docker inspect command, but only for containers.

• c.inspect_image(image_id)
  Identical to the docker inspect command, but only for images.

• c.kill(container)
  Kill a container. Similar to the docker kill command.

• c.login(username, password=None, email=None)
  Identical to the docker login command (but non-interactive, obviously).

• c.logs(container)
  Identical to the docker logs command.

• c.port(container, private_port)
  Identical to the docker port command.

• c.pull(repository, tag=None) Identical to the docker pull command.

• c.push(repository)
  Identical to the docker push command.

• c.remove_container(container, v=False)
  Remove a container. Similar to the docker rm command.

• c.remove_image(image)
  Remove an image. Similar to the docker rmi command.

• c.restart(container, timeout=10)
  Restart a container. Similar to the docker restart command.

• c.search(term)
  Identical to the docker search command.

• c.start(container, binds=None, port_bindings=None, lxc_conf=None) Similar to the docker start command, but doesn't support attach options. Use docker logs to recover stdout/stderr
binds Allows to bind a directory in the host to the container. Similar to the docker run command with option -v="/host:/mnt". Note that you must declare "blank" volumes at container creation to use binds.
  Example of binds mapping from host to container: {'/mnt/srv/': '/srv'}
port_bindings Exposes container ports to the host. This is a dictionary whose key is the container's port and the value is a [{'HostIp': '' 'HostPort': ''}] list. Leaving HostIp blank will expose the port on all host interfaces. By leaving the HostPort blank, Docker will automatically assign a port. For example: port_bindings={"2181/tcp": [{'HostIp': '' 'HostPort': ''}]}. lxc_conf allows to pass LXC configuration options in dict form.

• c.stop(container, timeout=10)
  Stops a container. Similar to the docker stop command.

• c.tag(image, repository, tag=None, force=False)
  Identical to the docker tag command.

• c.top(container_id)
  Identical to the docker top command.

• c.version()
  Identical to the docker version command.

• c.wait(container)
  Wait for a container and return its exit code. Similar to the docker wait command.