tuxity/docker-image-puller repository overview

⁠Docker Image Puller

⁠Overview

If you work with docker and continuous integrations tools, you might need to update your images on your servers as soon as your build is finished.

This tool is a tiny webserver listening for a POST and automatically update the specified image using Docker⁠ API.

You just have to run the image on your server, and configure your CI tool.

CI tools to make the POST request:

• Drone⁠

⁠Installation

Launch the image on your server, where the images you want to update are

docker run -d \
  --name dip \
  --env TOKEN=abcd4242 \
  --env REGISTRY_USER=roberto \
  --env REGISTRY_PASSWD=robertopwd \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  tuxity/docker-image-puller

Available env variable:

TOKEN*
REGISTRY_USER
REGISTRY_PASSWD
REGISTRY_URL (default: https://index.docker.io/v1/)
HOST (default: 0.0.0.0)
PORT (default: 8080)
DEBUG (default: False)

* mandatory variables. For TOKEN You can generate a random string, it's a security measure.

After, you just have to make a request to the server:

POST http://ipofyourserver/images/pull?token=abcd4242&restart_containers=true&image=nginx:latest

⁠Logs

You can access container logs with

docker logs --follow dip