Learning Windows Server Containers

Downloading an image

The following code creates an image by downloading the image from the Docker Hub if required:

        /// <summary>         /// Creates a new Image by pulling from Docker Hub         /// </summary>         /// <returns></returns>         public async static Task<Stream> CreateImage()         {             client = new DockerClientConfiguration            (new Uri(containerHostUrl)).CreateClient();             return await client.Images.CreateImageAsync            (new ImagesCreateParameters()             { Parent = "microsoft/iis", Tag = "webserver" }, null);         }

Few docker API endpoints stream responses; for example, creating images or monitoring docker events. We can obtain the events from the stream by using the following code:

CancellationTokenSource cancellation = new CancellationTokenSource(); Stream stream ...