https://www.ashimmahara.com/tags/python/Recent content in Python on Ashim MaharaHugoen-usWed, 29 Jul 2026 01:27:31 -0400https://www.ashimmahara.com/writing/docker_python/Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.ashimmahara.com/writing/docker_python/<p>Soooo, I have decided to write more about some of the things that I am doing right now.</p> <p>Today I decided to port my janky <code>subprocess.run(cmd)</code> approach to managing docker containers to <code>docker-py</code> sdk.</p> <h2 id="client">Client</h2> <p>To interact with the local docker service, we first have to create a client.</p> <p>The client can be created as:</p> <pre><code class="language-python">import docker client = docker.from_env() </code></pre> <p>There are other options available to for various configurations like providing the <code>DOCKER_HOST</code> argument for remote hosts but I&rsquo;ll leave it to you for reading up on it from <a href="https://docker-py.readthedocs.io/en/stable/client.html">docker client ref</a>.</p>