Exploring Docker remote API client libraries

In the previous recipes, we explored APIs provided by Docker to connect and perform operations on the Docker daemon. Docker also provides the Software Development Kit for the python and go languages.

In this recipe, let's explore the python SDK with a few examples.

Getting ready

• Ensure python3 is installed.
• ubuntu 16.04 might not have pip3, so install pip3 using the following command:

$ sudo apt-get -y install python3-pip

How to do it...

1. Let's begin by installing the docker package for python using pip3:

$ sudo pip3 install docker

2. Now, let's launch python3 and import the docker and json packages, as demonstrated in the following:

3. Having imported the docker and json packages, let's connect to the Docker daemon through the Unix socket, unix://var/run/docker.sock, using docker.DockerClient, as shown here:

Here, base_url is the Docker daemon's connection address.

4. Continue on to print the Docker daemon version using the following code:

 

Here, the client.version...