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Extending Docker
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Extending Docker

by Russ McKendrick
June 2016
Intermediate to advanced
334 pages
6h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Summary

As you can see, we only discussed how Docker will interact with the plugin service that you have written and didn't cover how you can actually write a plugin service.

The reason for this is that due to the plugin service that we would have had to cover, we would also need the following features:

  • To be written in Go
  • To be able run as a daemon
  • To contain an HTTP server bound to a Unix socket or TCP port
  • To be able to accept and answer requests made to it by the Docker daemon
  • To translate the API requests that Docker is making to a filesystem or network service

As you can imagine, this has the potential of being an entire book by itself.

Also, building your own plugin is quite an undertaking as you already have to have the foundations of a service ...

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