How to programmatically connect to Docker for Windows

karldodd · April 2, 2017, 3:38pm

Hello. I am trying to connect to my local Docker engine using some docker client libraries like Docker.DotNet. I am using Docker for Windows 17.03.0-ce-win1.

The problem is that, I cannot find a way to construct the configuration needed to connect to the local default engine. I tried docker-machine ls but the result is empty.

friism · April 2, 2017, 4:57pm

On Windows, the default endpoint is npipe://./pipe/docker_engine, have you tried that?

github.com

Microsoft/Docker.DotNet/blob/3891112a69e0ae183808800d7735d6d9337c3a4e/src/Docker.DotNet/DockerClient.cs#L63


Images = new ImageOperations(this);
Containers = new ContainerOperations(this);
Miscellaneous = new MiscellaneousOperations(this);
Networks = new NetworkOperations(this);
Swarm = new SwarmOperations(this);


ManagedHandler handler;
var uri = Configuration.EndpointBaseUri;
switch (uri.Scheme.ToLowerInvariant())
{
    case "npipe":
        if (Configuration.Credentials.IsTlsCredentials())
        {
            throw new Exception("TLS not supported over npipe");
        }


        var segments = uri.Segments;
        if (segments.Length != 3 || !segments[1].Equals("pipe/", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            throw new ArgumentException($"{Configuration.EndpointBaseUri} is not a valid npipe URI");
        }

karldodd · April 6, 2017, 10:47pm

npipe://./pipe/docker_engine does help. Thanks

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