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https://github.com/markbirbeck/docker-engine

A Docker Engine API client for Node, driven at run-time by Docker's Swagger definition.
https://github.com/markbirbeck/docker-engine

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A Docker Engine API client for Node, driven at run-time by Docker's Swagger definition.

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# docker-engine



A Docker Engine API client for Node, driven at run-time by Docker's Swagger definition.



## Usage



To use `docker-engine` do:



```javascript

const client = await dockerEngine()

```



This will connect to the Docker API using the default values (for example, `/var/run/docker.sock` to connect).



### Connecting to a Docker Swarm on AWS



To use an SSH tunnel to connect to a swarm that has been set up using the [Docker for AWS instructions](https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-aws/), use config like the following:



```javascript

const client = await dockerEngine({

  username: 'docker',

  privateKey: require('fs').readFileSync(__dirname + '/docker-swarm.pem', 'utf8'),

  host: 'ec2-54-183-237-159.us-west.compute-1.amazonaws.com',

  socketPath: '/var/run/docker.sock'

})

```



To output logging information on tunnel connections set the `DEBUG` environment variable:



```shell

DEBUG=docker-engine:tunnel \

DOCKER_AWS=ec2-54-183-237-159.us-west.compute-1.amazonaws.com \

  tap test/test.js

```



## Why?



There are a number of excellent modules that allow you to connect to the Docker Engine API, but each of them caused me a problem in different ways. Whilst looking at making changes to these modules I realised that all a Docker API client needed was to use the Swagger file that Docker provides.



[harbor-master](https://www.npmjs.com/package/harbor-master): Has a minor issue with some endpoints. [I investigated how to fix this](https://github.com/arhea/harbor-master/issues/6#issuecomment-393490613) and discovered that the API endpoint definitions use Joi; since Swagger files are maintained by Docker themselves, I felt that this was the wrong way to go.



[dockerode](https://www.npmjs.com/package/dockerode): Dockerode also takes the approach of maintaining 'by hand' the connections between itself and the Docker API definitions. An example is the code required to [implement the 'inspect container' endpoint](https://github.com/apocas/dockerode/blob/master/lib/container.js#L46). As with `harbor-master` I felt that this part of the module should be driven by the Swagger file.



[docker-client](https://www.npmjs.com/package/docker-client): This module *is* driven the Swagger file. It's not dynamic--the client is generated with a code-generator that uses the Swagger file as input--but it would have been fine for my purposes. However, I was completely unable to get it to work with my local Docker Swarm. That's almost certain to be my fault, but I couldn't wait any longer, so had to move on. Note that because the client is generated it will be aligned with a specific version, whilst an approach that uses the Swagger file at *run-time* could be more dynamic.



## Our Approach



Key to the approach we've taken here is:



* to use the Swagger file as a *single source of truth* to drive the creation of the client. And more specifically, to do this at *run-time* so that the same module can be used for any version of the Docker API, without needing to be continually updated;

* to use ES6 proxies to allow the client methods to be wrapped and so present different kinds of interfaces to developers. This makes it very easy to present `harbor-master`- or `docker-client`-compatible interfaces that still benefit from being Swagger-driven.