Java API client for Docker
Supports a subset of the Docker Client API v1.14, Docker Server version 1.2.0
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 1.6+
- Maven 3.0.5
- Docker daemon running
Maven may run tests during build process but tests are disabled by default. The tests are using a localhost instance of Docker, make sure that you have Docker running for tests to work. To run the tests you have to provide your https://www.docker.io/account/login/ information:
$ mvn clean install -DskipTests=false -Ddocker.io.username=... -Ddocker.io.password=... -Ddocker.io.email=...
By default Docker server is using UNIX sockets for communication with the Docker client, however docker-java client uses TCP/IP to connect to the Docker server, so you will need to make sure that your Docker server is listening on TCP port. To allow Docker server to use TCP add the following line to /etc/default/docker
DOCKER_OPTS="-H tcp://127.0.0.1:2375 -H unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
More details setting up Docker server can be found in official documentation: http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/use/basics/
Now make sure that docker is up:
$ docker -H tcp://127.0.0.1:2375 version
Client version: 0.8.0
Go version (client): go1.2
Git commit (client): cc3a8c8
Server version: 1.2.0
Git commit (server): fa7b24f
Go version (server): go1.3.1
Run build with tests:
$ mvn clean install -DskipTests=false
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.docker-java</groupId>
<artifactId>docker-java</artifactId>
<version>0.10.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.docker-java</groupId>
<artifactId>docker-java</artifactId>
<version>0.10.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
Latest SNAPSHOT is published to maven repo: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public via
For code examples, please look at the Wiki or Test cases
There are a couple of configuration items, all of which have sensible defaults:
url
The Docker URL, e.g.http://localhost:2375
.version
The API version, e.g.1.14
.username
Your repository username (required to push containers).password
Your repository password.email
Your repository email.
There are three ways to configure, in descending order of precedence:
In your application, e.g.
DockerClientConfigBuilder configBuilder = DockerClientConfig.createDefaultConfigBuilder();
configBuilder.withVersion("1.14");
configBuilder.withUri("http://my-docker-host.tld:2375");
configBuilder.withUsername("dockeruser");
configBuilder.withPassword("ilovedocker");
configBuilder.withEmail("[email protected]");
DockerClientConfig config = configBuilder.build();
DockerClient docker = DockerClientBuilder.getInstance(config).build();
E.g.
java -Ddocker.io.username=kpelykh pkg.Main
In $HOME/.docker.io.properties
, e.g.:
docker.io.username=dockeruser
In the class path at /docker.io.properties
, e.g.:
docker.io.url=http://localhost:2375
docker.io.version=1.13