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DevOps: Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes
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DevOps: Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes

by Thomas Uphill, John Arundel, Neependra Khare, Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu
March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
925 pages
18h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Performing container operations using remote APIs

In a similar way to how we performed image operations using APIs, we can also do all container-related operations using APIs.

Getting ready

Configure the Docker daemon and allow remote access, as explained in the earlier recipe.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we'll look at a few container operations:

  1. To list containers, use the following API:
    GET  /containers/json
    

    Here are a few examples:

    • Get all the running containers:
      	$ curl -X GET http://shadowfax.example.com:2375/containers/json
      
    • Get all the running containers, including the stopped ones
      	$ curl -X GET http://shadowfax.example.com:2375/containers/json?all=True
      
  2. To create a new container, use the following API:
    POST  /containers/create
    

    Here are a few examples ...

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