This has worked for me, docker version : 17.04
Sample Dockerfile:
# cat Dockerfile
FROM ubuntu:14.04
RUN mkdir demo
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -y install vim
Create a tar file which includes your Dockerfile.
# tar -cvf Dockerfile.tar.gz Dockerfile
Execute the API as below and for more options, refer this.
# curl -v -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/tar" --data-binary '@Dockerfile.tar.gz' http://127.0.0.1:5000/build?t=build_test
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 5000 (#0)
> POST /build?t=build_test HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.35.0
> Host: 127.0.0.1:5000
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type:application/tar
> Content-Length: 10240
> Expect: 100-continue
>
< HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Api-Version: 1.28
< Content-Type: application/json
< Docker-Experimental: false
< Ostype: linux
* Server Docker/17.04.0-ce (linux) is not blacklisted
< Server: Docker/17.04.0-ce (linux)
< Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 09:56:54 GMT
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
<
{"stream":"Step 1/4 : FROM ubuntu:14.04\n"}
{"stream":" ---\u003e 302fa07d8117\n"}
{"stream":"Step 2/4 : RUN mkdir demo\n"}
{"stream":" ---\u003e Running in 5941f911099e\n"}
{"stream":" ---\u003e bccbffdd776a\n"}
{"stream":"Removing intermediate container 5941f911099e\n"}
{"stream":"Step 3/4 : RUN apt-get update\n"}
{"stream":" ---\u003e Running in 7aefd190a165\n"}
{"stream":"Removing intermediate container 7aefd190a165\n"}
{"stream":"Step 4/4 : RUN apt-get -y install vim\n"}
{"stream":" ---\u003e Running in e9ddad5a4695\n"}
{"stream":"Removing intermediate container e9ddad5a4695\n"}
{"stream":"Successfully built b1736dd9b698\n"}
* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
Check the docker images after the image is successfully built.
# docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
build_test latest b1736dd9b698 8 seconds ago
Removed some unnecessary output.
To configure docker daemon port , refer this