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NetComposer / nkdocker

Erlang Docker client
Apache License 2.0
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Support for Docker Unix socket. #10

Open pviotti opened 8 years ago

pviotti commented 8 years ago

Hello!

It appears that the support for connections to the Docker Unix socket (which is the default socket in plain Docker installs) is not implemented. Specifically, it crashes on nkdocker_app:start() when trying to read the DOCKER_HOST variable ( nkdocker_app.erl ) if it's something different from tcp://....

I was wondering: why is this not supported? Would it be difficult to add support for it?

Thanks in advance!

pviotti commented 8 years ago

Uh, I see: Erlang does not have a built-in support for Unix sockets... This other project used an external tool to make up for this lack. In any case, that would be a nice feature to have.

kalta commented 8 years ago

The socat solution is not very elegant but easy. I will probably add it.