Exdocker

Elixir client for the Docker Engine API.

Currently focused mostly on what is needed for Excontainers, contributions to add other functionalities are very welcome :)

Just like Excontainers, Exdocker is still mostly a work-in-progress, and it shuold not be considered stable yet.

Purpose

This project aims to provide a easy way to interface with the Docker Engine API, taking care of matters such as running requests, registry authentication (WIP), and parsing and streaming logs.

exdocker follows the APIs exposed by Docker closely, hence some operations may not feel very ergonomic compared to eg. the Docker CLI. For a higher-level abstraction for working with Docker, follow Excontainers.

The highest priority is to support functionalities necessary for excontainers. Support for other functionalities is also a goal and any contribution for that is very welcome. Support for Swarm APIs is not a goal.

Installation

The package can be installed by adding exdocker to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:exdocker, "~> 0.1.2"}
  ]
end

The docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/exdocker.

Quickstart

By default, requests are run on the default docker host of the system, as specified by the DOCKER_HOST environment variable and defaulting on /var/run/docker.sock:

:ok = Exdocker.Images.pull("alpine", "latest")

To run requests on a different docker host, a context can be passed to any function wrapping a Docker API:

context = %Exdocker.Context{host: "tcp://192.168.59.103:1234", api_version: "v1.41"}
:ok = Exdocker.Images.pull("alpine", "latest", context: context)

Some operations can stream output as messages:

{:ok, ref} = Exdocker.Containers.stream_logs("container-id", stdout: true, stderr: true, stream_to: self())

receive do
  {:log_chunk, ^ref, :stdout, text} -> IO.puts("Received #{text} on stdout")
  {:log_chunk, ^ref, :stderr, text} -> IO.puts("Received #{text} on stderr")
  {:log_end, ^ref} -> IO.puts("Container stopped")
end