Docker_API

An example of the Docker API based on:

   http://docs.docker.com/reference/api/docker_remote_api_v1.19/

e.g., by calling the API in low-level through openssl s_client directly.

The normal way to connect to docker servers is through the docker client. The inspiration for this raw connection in BASH was when a docker client (which possessed network connectivity to the docker servers), couldn't connect to them because of a window-in-time small version mismatch between the docker protocol, and the docker client couldn't be updated in this same window of time and openssl was the only thing at hand (lesson learned: upgrade clients first):

  docker ps
      Error response from daemon: client and server don't have same version (client: <docker-client-version>, server: <docker-server-version>)

Since docker version 1.7.1-RC1, it merely gives a warning, before this version it had been:

    if version.GreaterThan(api.APIVERSION) {
            http.Error(w, fmt.Errorf("client and server don't have same version (client API version: %s, server API version: %s)", version, api.APIVERSION).Error(), http.StatusBadRequest)
            return
    }

So use with care a raw connection, and preferably, upgrade to a docker version 1.7.1 or higher.

WIP

This project is a work in progress. The implementation is incomplete and subject to change. The documentation can be inaccurate.

Files

Files:

  docker_low_level_library.sh
  
       This is the library of BASH functions, using either 'netcat' or
       'openssl s_client', which allows to connect directly to a remote
       Docker API from the BASH shell.
  
  
  examples_of_the_docker_low_level_library_in_BASH.sh:
  
       Some examples of some Docker API commands using the library
       'docker_low_level_library.sh' of BASH functions (above).