August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 30m
English
In the previous recipes, we were using the Unix socket (/var/run/docker.sock) to talk to the Docker engine. As mentioned earlier, by default dockerd listens to the Unix socket /var/run/docker.sock. However, access to the Unix socket is confined to a local system. But there will be use cases where you will have to access the Docker daemon remotely. You can achieve this by configuring the Docker daemon to listen for remote connections using the tcp socket. In this recipe, we will configure our Docker daemon for remote API connectivity.
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