Create a container

POST /containers/create

Create a container

Example request:

POST /containers/create HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json

{
       "Hostname": "",
       "Domainname": "",
       "User": "",
       "AttachStdin": false,
       "AttachStdout": true,
       "AttachStderr": true,
       "Tty": false,
       "OpenStdin": false,
       "StdinOnce": false,
       "Env": [
               "FOO=bar",
               "BAZ=quux"
       ],
       "Cmd": [
               "date"
       ],
       "Entrypoint": [],
       "Image": "ubuntu",
       "Labels": {
               "com.example.vendor": "Acme",
               "com.example.license": "GPL",
               "com.example.version": "1.0",
               "sh_hyper_instancetype": "s4"
       },
       "Mounts": [],
       "WorkingDir": "",
       "NetworkDisabled": false,
       "MacAddress": "",
       "ExposedPorts": {
               "22/tcp": {}
       },
       "StopSignal": "SIGTERM",
       "HostConfig": {
         "Binds": [],
         "Links": [],
         "Memory": 0,
         "MemorySwap": 0,
         "MemoryReservation": 0,
         "KernelMemory": 0,
         "CpuShares": 0,
         "CpuPeriod": 0,
         "CpuQuota": 0,
         "CpusetCpus": "",
         "CpusetMems": "",
         "BlkioWeight": 0,
         "BlkioWeightDevice": [],
         "BlkioDeviceReadBps": [],
         "BlkioDeviceReadIOps": [],
         "BlkioDeviceWriteBps": [],
         "BlkioDeviceWriteIOps": [],
         "MemorySwappiness": -1,
         "OomKillDisable": false,
         "OomScoreAdj": 0,
         "PortBindings": { "22/tcp": [{ "HostPort": "11022" }] },
         "PublishAllPorts": false,
         "Privileged": false,
         "ReadonlyRootfs": false,
         "Dns": [],
         "DnsOptions": [""],
         "DnsSearch": [""],
         "ExtraHosts": null,
         "VolumesFrom": [],
         "CapAdd": [],
         "CapDrop": [],
         "GroupAdd": [],
         "RestartPolicy": { "Name": "", "MaximumRetryCount": 0 },
         "NetworkMode": "bridge",
         "Devices": [],
         "Ulimits": [{}],
         "LogConfig": { "Type": "json-file", "Config": {} },
         "SecurityOpt": [""],
         "CgroupParent": "",
         "VolumeDriver": "",
         "ShmSize": 0 
      }
  }

Example response:

  HTTP/1.1 201 Created
  Content-Type: application/json

  {
       "Id":"6501525d12b5314538c520d6f0709d04296293507952d96b2dcc61e620313ef1",
       "Warnings":[]
  }

Json Parameters:

• Hostname - A string value containing the hostname to use for the container.

• IGNORED Domainname - A string value containing the domain name to use for the container.

• IGNORED User - A string value specifying the user inside the container.

• IGNORED Memory - Memory limit in bytes.

• IGNORED MemorySwap - Total memory limit (memory + swap); set -1 to disable swap

  You must use this with memory and make the swap value larger than memory.

• IGNORED MemoryReservation - Memory soft limit in bytes.

• IGNORED KernelMemory - Kernel memory limit in bytes.

• IGNORED CpuShares - An integer value containing the container's CPU Shares

  (ie. the relative weight vs other containers).

• IGNORED CpuPeriod - The length of a CPU period in microseconds.

• IGNORED CpuQuota - Microseconds of CPU time that the container can get in a CPU period.

• IGNORED Cpuset - Deprecated please don't use. Use CpusetCpus instead.

• IGNORED CpusetCpus - String value containing the cgroups CpusetCpus to use.

• IGNORED CpusetMems - Memory nodes (MEMs) in which to allow execution (0-3, 0,1). Only effective on NUMA systems.

• IGNORED BlkioWeight - Block IO weight (relative weight) accepts a weight value between 10 and 1000.

• IGNORED BlkioWeightDevice - Block IO weight (relative device weight) in the form of: "BlkioWeightDevice": [{"Path": "device_path", "Weight": weight}]

• IGNORED BlkioDeviceReadBps - Limit read rate (bytes per second) from a device in the form of: "BlkioDeviceReadBps": [{"Path": "device_path", "Rate": rate}], for example:

  "BlkioDeviceReadBps": [{"Path": "/dev/sda", "Rate": "1024"}]"

• IGNORED BlkioDeviceWriteBps - Limit write rate (bytes per second) to a device in the form of: "BlkioDeviceWriteBps": [{"Path": "device_path", "Rate": rate}], for example:

  "BlkioDeviceWriteBps": [{"Path": "/dev/sda", "Rate": "1024"}]"

• IGNORED BlkioDeviceReadIOps - Limit read rate (IO per second) from a device in the form of: "BlkioDeviceReadIOps": [{"Path": "device_path", "Rate": rate}], for example:

  "BlkioDeviceReadIOps": [{"Path": "/dev/sda", "Rate": "1000"}]

• IGNORED BlkioDeviceWiiteIOps - Limit write rate (IO per second) to a device in the form of: "BlkioDeviceWriteIOps": [{"Path": "device_path", "Rate": rate}], for example:

  "BlkioDeviceWriteIOps": [{"Path": "/dev/sda", "Rate": "1000"}]

• IGNORED MemorySwappiness - Tune a container's memory swappiness behavior. Accepts an integer between 0 and 100.

• IGNORED OomKillDisable - Boolean value, whether to disable OOM Killer for the container or not.

• IGNORED OomScoreAdj - An integer value containing the score given to the container in order to tune OOM killer preferences.

• AttachStdin - Boolean value, attaches to stdin.

• AttachStdout - Boolean value, attaches to stdout.

• AttachStderr - Boolean value, attaches to stderr.

• Tty - Boolean value, Attach standard streams to a tty, including stdin if it is not closed.

• OpenStdin - Boolean value, opens stdin,

• StdinOnce - Boolean value, close stdin after the 1 attached client disconnects.

• Env - A list of environment variables in the form of ["VAR=value"[,"VAR2=value2"]]

• Labels - Adds a map of labels to a container. To specify a map: {"key":"value"[,"key2":"value2"]}

• Cmd - Command to run specified as a string or an array of strings.

• Entrypoint - Set the entry point for the container as a string or an array

  of strings.

• Image - A string specifying the image name to use for the container.

• Mounts - An array of mount points in the container.

• WorkingDir - A string specifying the working directory for commands to

  run in.

• IGNORED NetworkDisabled - Boolean value, when true disables networking for the

  container

• ExposedPorts - An object mapping ports to an empty object in the form of:

  "ExposedPorts": { "<port>/<tcp|udp>: {}" }

• IGNORED StopSignal - Signal to stop a container as a string or unsigned integer. SIGTERM by default.

• HostConfig

  • Binds – A list of volume bindings for this container. Each volume binding is a string in one of these forms:

    • container_path to create a new volume for the container

    • host_path:container_path to bind-mount a host path into the container

    • host_path:container_path:ro to make the bind-mount read-only inside the container.

    • volume_name:container_path to bind-mount a volume managed by a volume plugin into the container.

    • volume_name:container_path:ro to make the bind mount read-only inside the container.

  • Links - A list of links for the container. Each link entry should be

    in the form of container_name:alias.

  • PortBindings - A map of exposed container ports and the host port they

    should map to. A JSON object in the form

    { <port>/<protocol>: [{ "HostPort": "<port>" }] }

    Take note that port is specified as a string and not an integer value.

  • PublishAllPorts - Allocates a random host port for all of a container's

    exposed ports. Specified as a boolean value.

  • IGNORED Privileged - Gives the container full access to the host. Specified as

    a boolean value.

  • ReadonlyRootfs - Mount the container's root filesystem as read only.

    Specified as a boolean value.

  • IGNORED Dns - A list of DNS servers for the container to use.

  • IGNORED DnsOptions - A list of DNS options

  • IGNORED DnsSearch - A list of DNS search domains

  • IGNORED ExtraHosts - A list of hostnames/IP mappings to add to the

    container's /etc/hosts file. Specified in the form ["hostname:IP"].

  • VolumesFrom - A list of volumes to inherit from another container.

    Specified in the form <container name>[:<ro|rw>]

  • IGNORED CapAdd - A list of kernel capabilities to add to the container.

  • IGNORED Capdrop - A list of kernel capabilities to drop from the container.

  • IGNORED GroupAdd - A list of additional groups that the container process will run as

  • RestartPolicy – The behavior to apply when the container exits. The

    value is an object with a `Name` property of either `"always"` to
    always restart, `"unless-stopped"` to restart always except when
    user has manually stopped the container or `"on-failure"` to restart only when the container
    exit code is non-zero.  If `on-failure` is used, `MaximumRetryCount`
    controls the number of times to retry before giving up.
    The default is not to restart. (optional)
    An ever increasing delay (double the previous delay, starting at 100mS)
    is added before each restart to prevent flooding the server.

  • NetworkMode - Sets the networking mode for the container. Supported

    values are: bridge, host, and container:<name|id>

  • IGNORED Devices - A list of devices to add to the container specified as a JSON object in the

    form

    { "PathOnHost": "/dev/deviceName", "PathInContainer": "/dev/deviceName", "CgroupPermissions": "mrw"}

  • IGNORED Ulimits - A list of ulimits to set in the container, specified as

    { "Name": <name>, "Soft": <soft limit>, "Hard": <hard limit> }, for example:

    Ulimits: { "Name": "nofile", "Soft": 1024, "Hard": 2048 }

  • IGNORED SecurityOpt: A list of string values to customize labels for MLS

    systems, such as SELinux.

  • LogConfig - Log configuration for the container, specified as a JSON object in the form

    { "Type": "<driver_name>", "Config": {"key1": "val1"}}.

    Available types: json-file, syslog, journald, gelf, awslogs, splunk, none.

    json-file logging driver.

  • IGNORED CgroupParent - Path to cgroups under which the container's cgroup is created. If the path is not absolute, the path is considered to be relative to the cgroups path of the init process. Cgroups are created if they do not already exist.

  • VolumeDriver - Driver that this container users to mount volumes.

  • IGNORED ShmSize - Size of /dev/shm in bytes. The size must be greater than 0. If omitted the system uses 64MB.

Query Parameters:

• name – Assign the specified name to the container. Must

  match /?[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+.

Status Codes:

• 201 – no error

• 404 – no such container

• 406 – impossible to attach (container not running)

• 500 – server error