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The Docker Book
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The Docker Book

by James Turnbull
July 2014
Beginner
344 pages
4h 48m
English
Turnbull Press
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8 Using the Docker API

In Chapter 6, we saw some excellent examples of how to run services and build applications and workflow around Docker. One of those examples, the TProv application, focused on using the docker binary on the command line and capturing the resulting output. This is not an elegant approach to integrating with Docker; especially when Docker comes with a powerful API you can use to integrate directly.

In this chapter, we’re going to introduce you to the Docker API and see how to make use of it. We’re going to take you through binding the Docker daemon on a network port. We’ll then take you through the API at a high level and hit on the key aspects of it. We’ll also look at the TProv application we saw in Chapter 6 and rewrite ...

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