linuxspecialist/docker-siege repository overview

⁠Running Container as a Command

The has a default ENTRYPOINT of siege and all arguments passed after the container image will pass to siege. The default argument is --help.

⁠Running Container With Local Configuration

To skip the bundled configuration files in the image, and use local files in the current directoy, bind mount it to /app using the -v flag.

For example using this repository and you want to create a URL list to pass to siege called urls.txt without having to re-build the container image,

docker pull linuxspecialist/docker-siege
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/app linuxspecialist/docker-siege -c 50 -f /app/urls.txt -R /app/siege.conf

The -v $(pwd):/app will bind mount your current directory to /app within the container, letting you use local files.

⁠Running in a Jenkins Job

Runnig this container using the image in Docker Hub as a Jenkins job requires not including the -t option, otherwise Jenkins will give an error.

⁠Updating Docker Image

To update the version fo Siege, find the latest version from the Siege Downloads⁠ page and in the Dockerfile update the SIEGE_VERSION variable and re-build,

docker build -t linuxspecialist/docker-siege .