An API client for docker written in Python

docker.Client(base_url='unix://var/run/docker.sock', version="1.4", timeout=60)
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, name=None)
  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)
  See "Port bindings" and "Using volumes" below for more information on how to create port bindings and volume mappings.

• 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, signal=None)
  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, privileged=False) 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. See "Using volumes" below for more information. port_bindings Exposes container ports to the host. See "Port bindings" below for more information. lxc_conf allows to pass LXC configuration options using a dictionary. privileged starts the container in privileged mode.

• 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.

Port bindings is done in two parts. Firstly, by providing a list of ports to open inside the container in the Client.create_container method.

client.create_container('busybox', 'ls', ports=[1111, 2222])

If you wish to use UDP instead of TCP (default), you can declare it like such:

client.create_container('busybox', 'ls', ports=[(1111, 'udp'), 2222])

Bindings are then declared in the Client.start method.

client.start(container_id, port_bindings={
    1111: 4567,
    2222: None
})

You can limit the host address on which the port will be exposed like such:

client.start(container_id, port_bindings={
    1111: ('127.0.0.1', 4567)
})

or without host port assignment:

client.start(container_id, port_bindings={
    1111: ('127.0.0.1',)
})

Similarly, volume declaration is done in two parts. First, you have to provide a list of mountpoints to the Client.create_container method.

client.create_container('busybox', 'ls', volumes=['/mnt/vol1', '/mnt/vol2'])

Volume mappings are then declared inside the Client.start method like this:

client.start(container_id, bindings={
        '/mnt/vol2': '/home/user1/',
        '/mnt/vol1': '/var/www'
})