This package presents a client for the Docker remote API. It also provides support for the extensions in the Swarm API.

This package also provides support for docker's network API, which is a simple passthrough to the libnetwork remote API.

For more details, check the remote API documentation.

Link for the official SDK: https://docs.docker.com/develop/sdk/

go-dockerclient was created before Docker had an official Go SDK and is still maintained and relatively active because it's still used out there. New features in the Docker API do not get automatically implemented here: it's based on demand, if someone wants it, they can file an issue or a PR and the feature may get implemented/merged.

For new projects, using the official SDK is probably more appropriate as go-dockerclient lags behind the official SDK.

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient"
)

func main() {
	endpoint := "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
	client, err := docker.NewClient(endpoint)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	imgs, err := client.ListImages(docker.ListImagesOptions{All: false})
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	for _, img := range imgs {
		fmt.Println("ID: ", img.ID)
		fmt.Println("RepoTags: ", img.RepoTags)
		fmt.Println("Created: ", img.Created)
		fmt.Println("Size: ", img.Size)
		fmt.Println("VirtualSize: ", img.VirtualSize)
		fmt.Println("ParentId: ", img.ParentID)
	}
}

In order to instantiate the client for a TLS-enabled daemon, you should use NewTLSClient, passing the endpoint and path for key and certificates as parameters.

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient"
)

func main() {
	endpoint := "tcp://[ip]:[port]"
	path := os.Getenv("DOCKER_CERT_PATH")
	ca := fmt.Sprintf("%s/ca.pem", path)
	cert := fmt.Sprintf("%s/cert.pem", path)
	key := fmt.Sprintf("%s/key.pem", path)
	client, _ := docker.NewTLSClient(endpoint, cert, key, ca)
	// use client
}

If using docker-machine, or another application that exports environment variables DOCKER_HOST, DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY, DOCKER_CERT_PATH, you can use NewClientFromEnv.

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient"
)

func main() {
	client, _ := docker.NewClientFromEnv()
	// use client
}

See the documentation for more details.

All development commands can be seen in the Makefile.

Commited code must pass:

• staticcheck
• gofmt
• go test

Running make test will check all of these. If your editor does not automatically call gofmt -s, make sure you invoke it manually.

go-dockerclient supports dep for vendoring and can also be installed as a module. If you're using dep or Go modules, you should be able to pick go-dockerclient releases and get the proper dependencies.

With other vendoring tools, users might need to specify go-dockerclient's dependencies manually.

There's a tag for using go-dockerclient with Docker 1.9 (which requires compiling go-dockerclient with Go 1.4), the tag name is docker-1.9/go-1.4.

The instructions below can be used to get a version of go-dockerclient that compiles with Go 1.4:

% git clone -b docker-1.9/go-1.4 https://github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient.git $GOPATH/src/github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient
% git clone -b v1.9.1 https://github.com/docker/docker.git $GOPATH/src/github.com/docker/docker
% go get github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient