Nicholas Dille

Automation, DevOps and Containerization

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docker context

docker context

Manage connections to Docker instances

Like docker-machine without the deployment

Supports remoting via SSH

Check pre-defined context:

docker context ls

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Demo: docker context

Create and use new context:

docker context create docker-hcloud \
    --description 'Remote@Hetzner' \
    --docker 'host=ssh://020advanced-090dockercontext'
docker context use docker-hcloud
docker context ls

Check connectivity:

docker version

Check remote host:

docker run --uts host alpine hostname

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docker context

Manage connections to Kubernetes clusters

k3d create --name context --worker 3
KUBECONFIG=$(k3d get-kubeconfig --name=context)
docker context create k3d --docker 'host=unix:///var/run/docker.sock' --kubernetes config-file=${KUBECONFIG}