command line tools needed for talking to docker daemon in a shell script

[jizhilong]

Hi, guys.In some circumstance, such as building images in a jenkins container, I need to run some commands like docker tag, docker push, etc.But I don't want to install another binary package for docker client in the jenkins container, so I made a trade-off by using commands like python -c "from docker import client;client.Client(version='1.20').push('10.18.5.203:8080/mypackage','$commit_id', insecure_registry=True)", and such long commands make my scripts messy.If there was a command line tool dockerpy, those long commands can be simplified with dockerpy push -v 1.20 --insecure_registry 10.18.5.203:8080/mypackage:$commit_id.

[TomasTomecek]

It's not that hard to implement such thing yourself. I would actually open such request, providing a client without server overhead, at docker engine tracker.

[dnephin]

But I don't want to install another binary package for docker client ... If there was a command line tool dockerpy

These are conflicting requirements, you don't want to install one binary, but you want to create another one that will be installed?

I don't think there is any reason to create a dockerpy binary that would be a clone of the docker cli binary.

It is possible to build a client-only binary from the current docker/docker repo.

[jizhilong]

These are conflicting requirements, you don't want to install one binary, but you want to create another one that will be installed?

Not conflicting actually, since docker-py is already on our pip requirements list, and no extra overhead of installing another binary would be added if there is a dockerpy cli tool within the docker-py repo.

It is possible to build a client-only binary from the current docker/docker repo.

It's possible, but not as simple and straightforward as a line of command pip install docker-py .

[dustymabe]

This feature request might be relevant: #1031

[jizhilong]

build client binary from docker/docker is not that complicated, I'll close this issue.

[TomasTomecek]

In 1.12, there was a split in packaging. docker binary is a client only since then: moby/moby#20639

[jizhilong]

@TomasTomecek thanks for the sharing.

[dustymabe]

hey all. you can also use https://github.com/containscafeine/shipy that @containscafeine wrote. It is just a few python files that builds on docker-py and you can use it like: python shipy run --name batman -p 8080:8080 centos ping 8.8.8.8