Java API client for Docker
The current implementation is based on Jersey 2.x and therefore classpath incompatible with older Jersey 1.x dependent libraries!
Developer forum for docker-java
- Java min 1.7
- Maven 3
Build and run integration tests as follows:
$ mvn clean install
If you do not have access to a Docker server or just want to execute the build quickly, you can run the build without the integration tests:
$ mvn clean install -DskipITs
By default the docker engine is using local UNIX sockets for communication with the docker CLI so docker-java client also uses UNIX domain sockets to connect to the docker daemon by default. To make the docker daemon listening on a TCP (http/https) port you have to configure it by setting the DOCKER_OPTS environment variable to something like the following:
DOCKER_OPTS="-H tcp://127.0.0.1:2375 -H unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
More details about setting up Docker Engine can be found in the official documentation: https://docs.docker.com/engine/admin/
To force docker-java to use TCP (http) configure the following (see Configuration for details):
DOCKER_HOST=tcp://127.0.0.1:2375
For secure tls (https) communication:
DOCKER_HOST=tcp://127.0.0.1:2376
DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=1
DOCKER_CERT_PATH=/Users/marcus/.docker/machine/machines/docker-1.11.2
Supports a subset of the Docker Remote API v1.23, Docker Server version 1.11.x
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.docker-java</groupId>
<artifactId>docker-java</artifactId>
<!-- use latest version https://github.com/docker-java/docker-java/releases -->
<version>3.X.Y</version>
</dependency>
Supports a subset of the Docker Remote API v1.23, Docker Server version 1.11.x
You can find the latest development version including javadoc and source files on Sonatypes OSS repository.
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.docker-java</groupId>
<artifactId>docker-java</artifactId>
<version>3.X.Y-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
For code examples, please look at the Wiki or Test cases
There are a couple of configuration items, all of which have sensible defaults:
DOCKER_HOST
The Docker Host URL, e.g.tcp://localhost:2376
orunix:///var/run/docker.sock
DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY
enable/disable TLS verification (switch betweenhttp
andhttps
protocol)DOCKER_CERT_PATH
Path to the certificates needed for TLS verificationDOCKER_CONFIG
Path for additional docker configuration files (like.dockercfg
)api.version
The API version, e.g.1.23
.registry.url
Your registry's address.registry.username
Your registry username (required to push containers).registry.password
Your registry password.registry.email
Your registry email.
There are three ways to configure, in descending order of precedence:
In your application, e.g.
DockerClientConfig config = DefaultDockerClientConfig.createDefaultConfigBuilder()
.withDockerHost("tcp://my-docker-host.tld:2376")
.withDockerTlsVerify(true)
.withDockerCertPath("/home/user/.docker/certs")
.withDockerConfig("/home/user/.docker")
.withApiVersion("1.23")
.withRegistryUrl("https://index.docker.io/v1/")
.withRegistryUsername("dockeruser")
.withRegistryPassword("ilovedocker")
.withRegistryEmail("dockeruser@github.com")
.build();
DockerClient docker = DockerClientBuilder.getInstance(config).build();
DOCKER_HOST=tcp://localhost:2376
DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=1
DOCKER_CERT_PATH=/home/user/.docker/certs
DOCKER_CONFIG=/home/user/.docker
api.version=1.23
registry.url=https://index.docker.io/v1/
registry.username=dockeruser
registry.password=ilovedocker
registry.email=dockeruser@github.com
java -DDOCKER_HOST=tcp://localhost:2375 -Dregistry.username=dockeruser pkg.Main
export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://localhost:2376
export DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=1
export DOCKER_CERT_PATH=/home/user/.docker/certs
export DOCKER_CONFIG=/home/user/.docker
In $HOME/.docker-java.properties
In the class path at /docker-java.properties