The Python API client for Docker
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Questions tagged [dockerpy]
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Capturing output of python script run inside a docker container
The aim here is to use a docker container as a secure sandbox to run untrusted python scripts in, but to do so from within python using the docker-py module, and be able to capture the output of that script.
I'm running a python script foo.py…
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pipeline in docker exec from command line and from python api
What I try to implement is invoking mysqldump in container and dump the database into the container's own directory.
At first I try command below:
$ docker exec container-name mysqldump [options] database | xz > database.sql.xz
That's not working,…
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How to send to stdin of a docker-py container?
Considering this shell example:
echo "hello" | docker run --rm -ti -a stdin busybox \
/bin/sh -c "cat - >/out"
This will execute a busybox container and create a new file /out with the contents hello.
How would I accomplish this with docker-py…
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How to copy a file from host to container using docker-py (docker SDK)
I know, there is possible way how to copy file bidirectionally between host and docker container using docker cp and also it is possible to obtain file from running container using docker-py. But I am not able to figure out how (or if it is even…
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Docker remote api pull from Docker hub private registry
I'm trying to pull docker images from a private repository hosted in Docker hub https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/myname/myapp like this using the docker remote API. The doc is not clear as to how to specify the authentication credentials in a POST…
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How to use docker-py (official docker client) to start a bash shell?
I'm trying to use docker-py to run a docker container and drop me into a bash shell in that container. I get as far as running the container (I can see it with docker ps, and I can attach to it just fine with the native docker client), but when I…
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docker-py: How to bind an IP address to a container
Say I have a network called "mynet" and I want to start a container with an IP address bound to 192.168.23.2.
The code I'm starting with is:
import docker
c = docker.from_env()
c.containers.run('containername', 'sh some_script.sh',…
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docker-py: How to get exit code returned by process running inside container?
My python script uses docker-py to launch a docker container as follows:
client = docker.from_env()
result = client.containers.run(
image="my-prog-image:latest",
command=["/etc/my-prog/configs.ini"],
auto_remove=True,
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Docker inside docker : volume is mounted, but empty
I am running a docker container with docker mounted inside using :
docker run -v /Path/to/service:/src/service -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock --net=host image-name python run.py
This runs a python script that creates a data folder in…
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How to bind volumes in docker-py?
I think this used to work up to a few months ago. The regular commandline docker:
>> docker run --name 'mycontainer' -d -v '/new' ubuntu /bin/bash -c 'touch /new/hello.txt'
>> docker run --volumes-from mycontainer ubuntu /bin/bash -c 'ls new'
>>…
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Bidirectional communication with 'docker exec -it bash ' using docker-py
I can't seem to figure out how to enable async i/o with a container shell session using docker-py SDK. What I am essentially trying to achieve is to have a working equivalent of docker exec -it bash $container_id in docker-py.
Obviously, stdout…
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Python docker-py Connection Refused
I am having trouble accessing docker daemon from a client using docker-py in Python. I started a docker daemon by the command
sudo docker -d & and the output was [1] 4894. Then I tried to access the daemon from python using the code that I got from…
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docker-py : PermissionError(13)
While I was running
>>> import docker
>>> client = docker.from_env()
>>> client.containers.list()
I encountered the following error
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied'))
I think it…
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Is there a docker inspect in docker python apis?
I would like to get the ipaddress of the containers and I trying to figure out how using python docker APIs.
Something like this I would like to do it in python APIs
docker inspect -f '{{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}'…
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Logging in to ecr registry with python docker sdk doesn't work as expected
Assuming I have gotten the ecr credentials from boto already in an object called creds, when I do:
client = from_env()
client.login(creds.username, password=creds.password, registry=creds.endpoint)
I get:
{u'IdentityToken': u'', u'Status': u'Login…
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