aiodocker is a free, open source api development & testing project written in Python and released under Apache-2.0. It has 537 GitHub stars, 118 forks and 28 open issues, and was last pushed 17 days ago. On this registry it ranks #148 of 154 tracked projects in API Development & Testing, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available.

============================== AsyncIO bindings for docker.io

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A simple Docker HTTP API wrapper written with asyncio and aiohttp.

Installation

.. code-block:: sh

pip install aiodocker

Development

The recommended developer setup uses uv _, which manages the virtualenv and resolves dependencies from the committed uv.lock so every contributor and CI job builds against the same versions.

.. code-block:: sh

Install uv first: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/

uv sync --extra dev --extra lint --extra test --extra doc uv run pre-commit install

The Makefile helpers (make develop, make install, make lint, make test) all assume uv.

Using pip instead (fallback)


If you can't install uv, you can still bootstrap with pip. The resulting
environment isn't pinned to ``uv.lock``, so versions may drift from CI.

.. code-block:: sh

   python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
   pip install -U pip
   pip install -e '.[dev,lint,test,doc]'  # in zsh, you need to escape brackets
   pre-commit install

Running tests
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. code-block:: sh

   # Run all tests
   make test

   # Run individual tests
   uv run pytest tests/test_images.py


Building packages
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

NOTE: Usually you don't need to run this step by yourself.

.. code-block:: sh

   uv build


Documentation
==============

http://aiodocker.readthedocs.io


Examples
=========

.. code-block:: python

    import asyncio
    import aiodocker

    async def list_things(docker):
        print('== Images ==')
        for image in (await docker.images.list()):
            tags = image['RepoTags'][0] if image['RepoTags'] else ''
            print(image['Id'], tags)
        print('== Containers ==')
        for container in (await docker.containers.list()):
            print(f" {container._id}")

    async def run_container(docker):
        print('== Running a hello-world container ==')
        container = await docker.containers.create_or_replace(
            config={
                'Cmd': ['/bin/ash', '-c', 'echo "hello world"'],
                'Image': 'alpine:latest',
            },
            name='testing',
        )
        await container.start()
        logs = await container.log(stdout=True)
        print(''.join(logs))
        await container.delete(force=True)

    async def main():
        docker = aiodocker.Docker()
        await list_things(docker)
        await run_container(docker)
        await docker.close()

    if __name__ == "__main__":
        asyncio.run(main())

Frequently asked questions

Is aiodocker free to use?

aiodocker is open source under the Apache-2.0 licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does aiodocker do?

Python Docker API client based on asyncio and aiohttp

What is aiodocker written in?

aiodocker is primarily written in Python. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/aio-libs/aiodocker, and it has 537 GitHub stars.