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Docker Remote API v1.14
1. Brief introduction
- The Remote API has replaced
rcli
. - The daemon listens on
unix:///var/run/docker.sock
but you can Bind Docker to another host/port or a Unix socket. - The API tends to be REST, but for some complex commands, like
attach
orpull
, the HTTP connection is hijacked to transportSTDOUT
,STDIN
andSTDERR
.
2. Endpoints
2.1 Containers
List containers
GET /containers/json
List containers
Example request:
GET /containers/json?all=1&before=8dfafdbc3a40&size=1 HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
[
{
"Id": "8dfafdbc3a40",
"Image": "ubuntu:latest",
"Command": "echo 1",
"Created": 1367854155,
"Status": "Exit 0",
"Ports": [{"PrivatePort": 2222, "PublicPort": 3333, "Type": "tcp"}],
"SizeRw": 12288,
"SizeRootFs": 0
},
{
"Id": "9cd87474be90",
"Image": "ubuntu:latest",
"Command": "echo 222222",
"Created": 1367854155,
"Status": "Exit 0",
"Ports": [],
"SizeRw": 12288,
"SizeRootFs": 0
},
{
"Id": "3176a2479c92",
"Image": "ubuntu:latest",
"Command": "echo 3333333333333333",
"Created": 1367854154,
"Status": "Exit 0",
"Ports":[],
"SizeRw":12288,
"SizeRootFs":0
},
{
"Id": "4cb07b47f9fb",
"Image": "ubuntu:latest",
"Command": "echo 444444444444444444444444444444444",
"Created": 1367854152,
"Status": "Exit 0",
"Ports": [],
"SizeRw": 12288,
"SizeRootFs": 0
}
]
Query Parameters:
- all – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, Show all containers. Only running containers are shown by default (i.e., this defaults to false)
- limit – Show
limit
last created containers, include non-running ones. - since – Show only containers created since Id, include non-running ones.
- before – Show only containers created before Id, include non-running ones.
- size – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, Show the containers sizes
- filters - a json encoded value of the filters (a map[string][]string) to process on the containers list. Available filters:
- exited=<int> -- containers with exit code of <int>
- status=(restarting|running|paused|exited)
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 400 – bad parameter
- 500 – server error
Create a container
POST /containers/create
Create a container
Example request:
POST /containers/create HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
{
"Hostname":"",
"Domainname": "",
"User":"",
"Memory":0,
"MemorySwap":0,
"CpuShares": 512,
"Cpuset": "0,1",
"AttachStdin":false,
"AttachStdout":true,
"AttachStderr":true,
"PortSpecs":null,
"Tty":false,
"OpenStdin":false,
"StdinOnce":false,
"Env": [
"FOO=bar",
"BAZ=quux"
],
"Cmd":[
"date"
],
"Image":"ubuntu",
"Volumes":{
"/tmp": {}
},
"WorkingDir":"",
"NetworkDisabled": false,
"ExposedPorts":{
"22/tcp": {}
},
"RestartPolicy": { "Name": "always" }
}
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json
{
"Id":"e90e34656806"
"Warnings":[]
}
Json Parameters:
- RestartPolicy – The behavior to apply when the container exits. The
value is an object with a
Name
property of either"always"
to always restart or"on-failure"
to restart only when the container exit code is non-zero. Ifon-failure
is used,MaximumRetryCount
controls the number of times to retry before giving up. The default is not to restart. (optional) An ever increasing delay (double the previous delay, starting at 100mS) is added before each restart to prevent flooding the server. - config – the container's configuration
Query Parameters:
- name – Assign the specified name to the container. Must match
/?[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+
.
Status Codes:
- 201 – no error
- 404 – no such container
- 406 – impossible to attach (container not running)
- 500 – server error
Inspect a container
GET /containers/(id or name)/json
Return low-level information on the container id
Example request:
GET /containers/4fa6e0f0c678/json HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{
"Id": "4fa6e0f0c6786287e131c3852c58a2e01cc697a68231826813597e4994f1d6e2",
"Created": "2013-05-07T14:51:42.041847+02:00",
"Path": "date",
"Args": [],
"Config": {
"Hostname": "4fa6e0f0c678",
"User": "",
"Memory": 0,
"MemorySwap": 0,
"AttachStdin": false,
"AttachStdout": true,
"AttachStderr": true,
"PortSpecs": null,
"Tty": false,
"OpenStdin": false,
"StdinOnce": false,
"Env": null,
"Cmd": [
"date"
],
"Dns": null,
"Image": "ubuntu",
"Volumes": {},
"VolumesFrom": "",
"WorkingDir": ""
},
"State": {
"Running": false,
"Pid": 0,
"ExitCode": 0,
"StartedAt": "2013-05-07T14:51:42.087658+02:01360",
"Ghost": false
},
"Image": "b750fe79269d2ec9a3c593ef05b4332b1d1a02a62b4accb2c21d589ff2f5f2dc",
"NetworkSettings": {
"IpAddress": "",
"IpPrefixLen": 0,
"Gateway": "",
"Bridge": "",
"PortMapping": null
},
"SysInitPath": "/home/kitty/go/src/github.com/docker/docker/bin/docker",
"ResolvConfPath": "/etc/resolv.conf",
"Volumes": {},
"HostConfig": {
"Binds": null,
"ContainerIDFile": "",
"LxcConf": [],
"Privileged": false,
"PortBindings": {
"80/tcp": [
{
"HostIp": "0.0.0.0",
"HostPort": "49153"
}
]
},
"Links": ["/name:alias"],
"PublishAllPorts": false,
"CapAdd": ["NET_ADMIN"],
"CapDrop": ["MKNOD"]
}
}
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
List processes running inside a container
GET /containers/(id or name)/top
List processes running inside the container id
. On Unix systems this
is done by running the ps
command. This endpoint is not
supported on Windows.
Example request:
GET /containers/4fa6e0f0c678/top HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{
"Titles" : [
"UID", "PID", "PPID", "C", "STIME", "TTY", "TIME", "CMD"
],
"Processes" : [
[
"root", "13642", "882", "0", "17:03", "pts/0", "00:00:00", "/bin/bash"
],
[
"root", "13735", "13642", "0", "17:06", "pts/0", "00:00:00", "sleep 10"
]
]
}
Example request:
GET /containers/4fa6e0f0c678/top?ps_args=aux HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{
"Titles" : [
"USER","PID","%CPU","%MEM","VSZ","RSS","TTY","STAT","START","TIME","COMMAND"
]
"Processes" : [
[
"root","13642","0.0","0.1","18172","3184","pts/0","Ss","17:03","0:00","/bin/bash"
],
[
"root","13895","0.0","0.0","4348","692","pts/0","S+","17:15","0:00","sleep 10"
]
],
}
Query Parameters:
- ps_args –
ps
arguments to use (e.g.,aux
), defaults to-ef
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Get container logs
GET /containers/(id or name)/logs
Get stdout and stderr logs from the container id
Example request:
GET /containers/4fa6e0f0c678/logs?stderr=1&stdout=1×tamps=1&follow=1&tail=10 HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/vnd.docker.raw-stream
{{ STREAM }}
Query Parameters:
- follow – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, return stream. Default false
- stdout – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, show stdout log. Default false
- stderr – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, show stderr log. Default false
- timestamps – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, print timestamps for every log line. Default false
- tail – Output specified number of lines at the end of logs:
all
or<number>
. Default all
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Inspect changes on a container's filesystem
GET /containers/(id or name)/changes
Inspect changes on container id
's filesystem
Example request:
GET /containers/4fa6e0f0c678/changes HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
[
{
"Path": "/dev",
"Kind": 0
},
{
"Path": "/dev/kmsg",
"Kind": 1
},
{
"Path": "/test",
"Kind": 1
}
]
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Export a container
GET /containers/(id or name)/export
Export the contents of container id
Example request:
GET /containers/4fa6e0f0c678/export HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
{{ TAR STREAM }}
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Start a container
POST /containers/(id or name)/start
Start the container id
Example request:
POST /containers/e90e34656806/start HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
{
"Binds":["/tmp:/tmp"],
"Links":["redis3:redis"],
"LxcConf":[{"Key":"lxc.utsname","Value":"docker"}],
"PortBindings":{ "22/tcp": [{ "HostPort": "11022" }] },
"PublishAllPorts":false,
"Privileged":false,
"Dns": ["8.8.8.8"],
"VolumesFrom": ["parent", "other:ro"],
"CapAdd": ["NET_ADMIN"],
"CapDrop": ["MKNOD"]
}
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Json Parameters:
- hostConfig – the container's host configuration (optional)
Status Codes:
- 204 – no error
- 304 – container already started
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Stop a container
POST /containers/(id or name)/stop
Stop the container id
Example request:
POST /containers/e90e34656806/stop?t=5 HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Query Parameters:
- t – number of seconds to wait before killing the container
Status Codes:
- 204 – no error
- 304 – container already stopped
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Restart a container
POST /containers/(id or name)/restart
Restart the container id
Example request:
POST /containers/e90e34656806/restart?t=5 HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Query Parameters:
- t – number of seconds to wait before killing the container
Status Codes:
- 204 – no error
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Kill a container
POST /containers/(id or name)/kill
Kill the container id
Example request:
POST /containers/e90e34656806/kill HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Query Parameters
- signal - Signal to send to the container: integer or string like "SIGINT". When not set, SIGKILL is assumed and the call will wait for the container to exit.
Status Codes:
- 204 – no error
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Pause a container
POST /containers/(id or name)/pause
Pause the container id
Example request:
POST /containers/e90e34656806/pause HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Status Codes:
- 204 – no error
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Unpause a container
POST /containers/(id or name)/unpause
Unpause the container id
Example request:
POST /containers/e90e34656806/unpause HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Status Codes:
- 204 – no error
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Attach to a container
POST /containers/(id or name)/attach
Attach to the container id
Example request:
POST /containers/16253994b7c4/attach?logs=1&stream=0&stdout=1 HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/vnd.docker.raw-stream
{{ STREAM }}
Query Parameters:
- logs – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, return logs. Default false
- stream – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, return stream. Default false
- stdin – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, if stream=true, attach to stdin. Default false
- stdout – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, if logs=true, return stdout log, if stream=true, attach to stdout. Default false
- stderr – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, if logs=true, return stderr log, if stream=true, attach to stderr. Default false
Status Codes:
-
200 – no error
-
400 – bad parameter
-
404 – no such container
-
500 – server error
Stream details:
When using the TTY setting is enabled in
POST /containers/create
, the stream is the raw data from the process PTY and client's stdin. When the TTY is disabled, then the stream is multiplexed to separate stdout and stderr.The format is a Header and a Payload (frame).
HEADER
The header will contain the information on which stream write the stream (stdout or stderr). It also contain the size of the associated frame encoded on the last 4 bytes (uint32).
It is encoded on the first 8 bytes like this:
header := [8]byte{STREAM_TYPE, 0, 0, 0, SIZE1, SIZE2, SIZE3, SIZE4}
STREAM_TYPE
can be: -
0: stdin (will be written on stdout)
-
1: stdout
-
2: stderr
SIZE1, SIZE2, SIZE3, SIZE4
are the 4 bytes of the uint32 size encoded as big endian.PAYLOAD
The payload is the raw stream.
IMPLEMENTATION
The simplest way to implement the Attach protocol is the following:
- Read 8 bytes
- chose stdout or stderr depending on the first byte
- Extract the frame size from the last 4 bytes
- Read the extracted size and output it on the correct output
- Goto 1
Attach to a container (websocket)
GET /containers/(id or name)/attach/ws
Attach to the container id
via websocket
Implements websocket protocol handshake according to RFC 6455
Example request
GET /containers/e90e34656806/attach/ws?logs=0&stream=1&stdin=1&stdout=1&stderr=1 HTTP/1.1
Example response
{{ STREAM }}
Query Parameters:
- logs – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, return logs. Default false
- stream – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, return stream. Default false
- stdin – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, if stream=true, attach to stdin. Default false
- stdout – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, if logs=true, return stdout log, if stream=true, attach to stdout. Default false
- stderr – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, if logs=true, return stderr log, if stream=true, attach to stderr. Default false
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 400 – bad parameter
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Wait a container
POST /containers/(id or name)/wait
Block until container id
stops, then returns the exit code
Example request:
POST /containers/16253994b7c4/wait HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{"StatusCode": 0}
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Remove a container
DELETE /containers/(id or name)
Remove the container id
from the filesystem
Example request:
DELETE /containers/16253994b7c4?v=1 HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Query Parameters:
- v – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, Remove the volumes associated to the container. Default false
- force - 1/True/true or 0/False/false, Kill then remove the container. Default false
Status Codes:
- 204 – no error
- 400 – bad parameter
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Copy files or folders from a container
POST /containers/(id or name)/copy
Copy files or folders of container id
Example request:
POST /containers/4fa6e0f0c678/copy HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
{
"Resource": "test.txt"
}
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
{{ TAR STREAM }}
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
2.2 Images
List Images
GET /images/json
Example request:
GET /images/json?all=0 HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
[
{
"RepoTags": [
"ubuntu:12.04",
"ubuntu:precise",
"ubuntu:latest"
],
"Id": "8dbd9e392a964056420e5d58ca5cc376ef18e2de93b5cc90e868a1bbc8318c1c",
"Created": 1365714795,
"Size": 131506275,
"VirtualSize": 131506275
},
{
"RepoTags": [
"ubuntu:12.10",
"ubuntu:quantal"
],
"ParentId": "27cf784147099545",
"Id": "b750fe79269d2ec9a3c593ef05b4332b1d1a02a62b4accb2c21d589ff2f5f2dc",
"Created": 1364102658,
"Size": 24653,
"VirtualSize": 180116135
}
]
Query Parameters:
- all – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, default false
- filters – a json encoded value of the filters (a map[string][]string) to process on the images list. Available filters:
- dangling=true
- filter - only return images with the specified name
Create an image
POST /images/create
Create an image, either by pulling it from the registry or by importing it
Example request:
POST /images/create?fromImage=ubuntu HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{"status": "Pulling..."}
{"status": "Pulling", "progress": "1 B/ 100 B", "progressDetail": {"current": 1, "total": 100}}
{"error": "Invalid..."}
...
When using this endpoint to pull an image from the registry, the
`X-Registry-Auth` header can be used to include
a base64-encoded AuthConfig object.
Query Parameters:
- fromImage – name of the image to pull
- fromSrc – source to import, - means stdin
- repo – repository
- tag – tag
- registry – the registry to pull from
Request Headers:
- X-Registry-Auth – base64-encoded AuthConfig object
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 500 – server error
Inspect an image
GET /images/(name)/json
Return low-level information on the image name
Example request:
GET /images/ubuntu/json HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{
"Created": "2013-03-23T22:24:18.818426-07:00",
"Container": "3d67245a8d72ecf13f33dffac9f79dcdf70f75acb84d308770391510e0c23ad0",
"ContainerConfig":
{
"Hostname": "",
"User": "",
"Memory": 0,
"MemorySwap": 0,
"AttachStdin": false,
"AttachStdout": false,
"AttachStderr": false,
"PortSpecs": null,
"Tty": true,
"OpenStdin": true,
"StdinOnce": false,
"Env": null,
"Cmd": ["/bin/bash"],
"Dns": null,
"Image": "ubuntu",
"Volumes": null,
"VolumesFrom": "",
"WorkingDir": ""
},
"Id": "b750fe79269d2ec9a3c593ef05b4332b1d1a02a62b4accb2c21d589ff2f5f2dc",
"Parent": "27cf784147099545",
"Size": 6824592
}
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 404 – no such image
- 500 – server error
Get the history of an image
GET /images/(name)/history
Return the history of the image name
Example request:
GET /images/ubuntu/history HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
[
{
"Id": "b750fe79269d",
"Created": 1364102658,
"CreatedBy": "/bin/bash"
},
{
"Id": "27cf78414709",
"Created": 1364068391,
"CreatedBy": ""
}
]
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 404 – no such image
- 500 – server error
Push an image on the registry
POST /images/(name)/push
Push the image name
on the registry
Example request:
POST /images/test/push HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{"status": "Pushing..."}
{"status": "Pushing", "progress": "1/? (n/a)", "progressDetail": {"current": 1}}}
{"error": "Invalid..."}
...
If you wish to push an image on to a private registry, that image must already have been tagged
into a repository which references that registry host name and port. This repository name should
then be used in the URL. This mirrors the flow of the CLI.
Example request:
POST /images/registry.acme.com:5000/test/push HTTP/1.1
Query Parameters:
- tag – the tag to associate with the image on the registry, optional
Request Headers:
- X-Registry-Auth – include a base64-encoded AuthConfig object.
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 404 – no such image
- 500 – server error
Tag an image into a repository
POST /images/(name)/tag
Tag the image name
into a repository
Example request:
POST /images/test/tag?repo=myrepo&force=0&tag=v42 HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 201 OK
Query Parameters:
- repo – The repository to tag in
- force – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, default false
- tag - The new tag name
Status Codes:
- 201 – no error
- 400 – bad parameter
- 404 – no such image
- 409 – conflict
- 500 – server error
Remove an image
DELETE /images/(name)
Remove the image name
from the filesystem
Example request:
DELETE /images/test HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
[
{"Untagged": "3e2f21a89f"},
{"Deleted": "3e2f21a89f"},
{"Deleted": "53b4f83ac9"}
]
Query Parameters:
- force – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, default false
- noprune – 1/True/true or 0/False/false, default false
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 404 – no such image
- 409 – conflict
- 500 – server error
Search images
GET /images/search
Search for an image on Docker Hub.
Note: The response keys have changed from API v1.6 to reflect the JSON sent by the registry server to the docker daemon's request.
Example request:
GET /images/search?term=sshd HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
[
{
"description": "",
"is_official": false,
"is_automated": false,
"name": "wma55/u1210sshd",
"star_count": 0
},
{
"description": "",
"is_official": false,
"is_automated": false,
"name": "jdswinbank/sshd",
"star_count": 0
},
{
"description": "",
"is_official": false,
"is_automated": false,
"name": "vgauthier/sshd",
"star_count": 0
}
...
]
Query Parameters:
- term – term to search
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 500 – server error
2.3 Misc
Build an image from Dockerfile via stdin
POST /build
Build an image from Dockerfile via stdin
Example request:
POST /build HTTP/1.1
{{ TAR STREAM }}
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{"stream": "Step 1..."}
{"stream": "..."}
{"error": "Error...", "errorDetail": {"code": 123, "message": "Error..."}}
The stream must be a tar archive compressed with one of the
following algorithms: identity (no compression), gzip, bzip2, xz.
The archive must include a file called `Dockerfile`
at its root. It may include any number of other files,
which will be accessible in the build context (See the [*ADD build
command*](../../reference/builder.md#dockerbuilder)).
Query Parameters:
-
t – repository name (and optionally a tag) to be applied to the resulting image in case of success
-
remote – git or HTTP/HTTPS URI build source
-
q – suppress verbose build output
-
nocache – do not use the cache when building the image
-
rm - remove intermediate containers after a successful build (default behavior)
-
forcerm - always remove intermediate containers (includes rm)
Request Headers:
-
Content-type – should be set to
"application/tar"
. -
X-Registry-Config – base64-encoded ConfigFile object
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 500 – server error
Check auth configuration
POST /auth
Get the default username and email
Example request:
POST /auth HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
{
"username":" hannibal",
"password: "xxxx",
"email": "hannibal@a-team.com",
"serveraddress": "https://index.docker.io/v1/"
}
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 204 – no error
- 500 – server error
Display system-wide information
GET /info
Display system-wide information
Example request:
GET /info HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{
"Containers": 11,
"Images": 16,
"Driver": "btrfs",
"ExecutionDriver": "native-0.1",
"KernelVersion": "3.12.0-1-amd64"
"Debug": false,
"NFd": 11,
"NGoroutines": 21,
"NEventsListener": 0,
"InitPath": "/usr/bin/docker",
"IndexServerAddress": ["https://index.docker.io/v1/"],
"MemoryLimit": true,
"SwapLimit": false,
"IPv4Forwarding": true
}
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 500 – server error
Show the docker version information
GET /version
Show the docker version information
Example request:
GET /version HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{
"ApiVersion": "1.12",
"Version": "0.2.2",
"GitCommit": "5a2a5cc+CHANGES",
"GoVersion": "go1.0.3"
}
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 500 – server error
Ping the docker server
GET /_ping
Ping the docker server
Example request:
GET /_ping HTTP/1.1
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain
OK
Status Codes:
- 200 - no error
- 500 - server error
Create a new image from a container's changes
POST /commit
Create a new image from a container's changes
Example request:
POST /commit?container=44c004db4b17&comment=message&repo=myrepo HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
{
"Hostname": "",
"Domainname": "",
"User": "",
"Memory": 0,
"MemorySwap": 0,
"CpuShares": 512,
"Cpuset": "0,1",
"AttachStdin": false,
"AttachStdout": true,
"AttachStderr": true,
"PortSpecs": null,
"Tty": false,
"OpenStdin": false,
"StdinOnce": false,
"Env": null,
"Cmd": [
"date"
],
"Volumes": {
"/tmp": {}
},
"WorkingDir": "",
"NetworkDisabled": false,
"ExposedPorts": {
"22/tcp": {}
}
}
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json
{"Id": "596069db4bf5"}
Json Parameters:
- config - the container's configuration
Query Parameters:
- container – source container
- repo – repository
- tag – tag
- comment – commit message
- author – author (e.g., "John Hannibal Smith <hannibal@a-team.com>")
Status Codes:
- 201 – no error
- 404 – no such container
- 500 – server error
Monitor Docker's events
GET /events
Get container events from docker, either in real time via streaming, or via polling (using since).
Docker containers will report the following events:
create, destroy, die, export, kill, pause, restart, start, stop, unpause
and Docker images will report:
untag, delete
Example request:
GET /events?since=1374067924
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{"status": "create", "id": "dfdf82bd3881","from": "ubuntu:latest", "time":1374067924}
{"status": "start", "id": "dfdf82bd3881","from": "ubuntu:latest", "time":1374067924}
{"status": "stop", "id": "dfdf82bd3881","from": "ubuntu:latest", "time":1374067966}
{"status": "destroy", "id": "dfdf82bd3881","from": "ubuntu:latest", "time":1374067970}
Query Parameters:
- since – timestamp used for polling
- until – timestamp used for polling
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 500 – server error
Get a tarball containing all images and tags in a repository
GET /images/(name)/get
Get a tarball containing all images and metadata for the repository
specified by name
.
See the image tarball format for more details.
Example request
GET /images/ubuntu/get
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/x-tar
Binary data stream
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 500 – server error
Load a tarball with a set of images and tags into docker
POST /images/load
Load a set of images and tags into the docker repository. See the image tarball format for more details.
Example request
POST /images/load
Tarball in body
Example response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Status Codes:
- 200 – no error
- 500 – server error
Image tarball format
An image tarball contains one directory per image layer (named using its long ID), each containing three files:
VERSION
: currently1.0
- the file format versionjson
: detailed layer information, similar todocker inspect layer_id
layer.tar
: A tarfile containing the filesystem changes in this layer
The layer.tar
file will contain aufs
style .wh..wh.aufs
files and directories
for storing attribute changes and deletions.
If the tarball defines a repository, there will also be a repositories
file at
the root that contains a list of repository and tag names mapped to layer IDs.
{"hello-world":
{"latest": "565a9d68a73f6706862bfe8409a7f659776d4d60a8d096eb4a3cbce6999cc2a1"}
}
3. Going further
3.1 Inside docker run
As an example, the docker run
command line makes the following API calls:
-
Create the container
-
If the status code is 404, it means the image doesn't exist:
- Try to pull it
- Then retry to create the container
-
Start the container
-
If you are not in detached mode:
- Attach to the container, using logs=1 (to have stdout and stderr from the container's start) and stream=1
-
If in detached mode or only stdin is attached:
- Display the container's id
3.2 Hijacking
In this version of the API, /attach, uses hijacking to transport stdin, stdout and stderr on the same socket. This might change in the future.
3.3 CORS Requests
To enable cross origin requests to the remote api add the flag "--api-enable-cors" when running docker in daemon mode.
$ docker -d -H="192.168.1.9:2375" --api-enable-cors