Note: Please note this is a community contributed installation path.
To use this guide you'll need a working installation of Chef. This cookbook supports a variety of operating systems.
The cookbook is available on the Chef Supermarket and can be installed using your favorite cookbook dependency manager.
The source can be found on GitHub.
depends 'docker', '~> 2.0'
to your cookbook's metadata.rbdocker_service 'default' do action [:create, :start] end docker_image 'busybox' do action :pull end docker_container 'an echo server' do repo 'busybox' port '1234:1234' command "nc -ll -p 1234 -e /bin/cat" end
Here's a quick example of pulling the latest image and running a container with exposed ports.
# Pull latest image docker_image 'nginx' do tag 'latest' action :pull end # Run container exposing ports docker_container 'my_nginx' do repo 'nginx' tag 'latest' port '80:80' binds [ '/some/local/files/:/etc/nginx/conf.d' ] host_name 'www' domain_name 'computers.biz' env 'FOO=bar' subscribes :redeploy, 'docker_image[nginx]' end