A Python library for the Docker Engine API. It lets you do anything the docker command does, but from within Python apps – run containers, manage containers, manage Swarms, etc.
The latest stable version is available on PyPI. Either add docker to your requirements.txt file or install with pip:
pip install docker If you are intending to connect to a docker host via TLS, add docker[tls] to your requirements instead, or install with pip:
pip install docker[tls] Connect to Docker using the default socket or the configuration in your environment:
importdockerclient=docker.from_env()You can run containers:
>>>client.containers.run("ubuntu:latest", "echo hello world") 'hello world\n'You can run containers in the background:
>>>client.containers.run("bfirsh/reticulate-splines", detach=True) <Container'45e6d2de7c54'>You can manage containers:
>>>client.containers.list() [<Container'45e6d2de7c54'>, <Container'db18e4f20eaa'>, ...] >>>container=client.containers.get('45e6d2de7c54') >>>container.attrs['Config']['Image'] "bfirsh/reticulate-splines">>>container.logs() "Reticulating spline 1...\n">>>container.stop()You can stream logs:
>>>forlineincontainer.logs(stream=True): ... printline.strip() Reticulatingspline2... Reticulatingspline3... ...You can manage images:
>>>client.images.pull('nginx') <Image'nginx'>>>>client.images.list() [<Image'ubuntu'>, <Image'nginx'>, ...]Read the full documentation to see everything you can do.