This application serves as a small demonstration for accessing the Docker REST API using the Docker.DotNet nuget package

The application creates new containers for the docker image : vad1mo/hello-world-rest, so make sure that this image is already pulled to your local docker repository. Use the following command to pull the Image:

docker pull vad1mo/hello-world-rest:latest

The application is a very minimalistic Balzor app and is supposed to be built as a docker image. The best way would be to open the solution file in Visual Studio 19.0 and run the application in either Debug or Release mode selecting Docker as the runtime configuration.

• Create the projects docker image

  • You must first build the application using docker build command - please refer to the docker documentation for more help regarding this. OR
  • An alternate way would be to run the application in Release mode (dont you forget to choose Docker as the runtime configuration) once using Visual Studio, this should create an image containercreationusingdockerapi:latest in the local docker repository. You can use the following image subsequently to run the docker container from the command line

• Use the following command from a wsl linux terminal (git-bash would also do) to start the container docker run -dt -p 5000:80 -v "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock" -e "ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Development" -e "ASPNETCORE_URLS=http://+:80" -P --name containercreationusingdockerapi_manual containercreationusingdockerapi:latest

  • The application makes REST Api calls to the docker daemon using the unix socket so make sure that in the above command the daemon socket is volume mounted for the application to connect to.

Please contact [email protected] for raising any issues or for adding more features. You can use the github facilities to raise any issues directly.