Terraform Provider for Docker

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Terraform Provider for Docker

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What You Can Manage With This Provider

This provider covers more than basic Docker images and containers. With Terraform, you can manage:

Available data sources include images, image tags and manifests, containers, networks, plugins, and container logs. See the full provider documentation for the complete resource and data source list.

Documentation

The documentation for the provider is available on the Terraform Registry. You need at least Terraform 1.1.5 to use this provider.

Migration guides:

Example usage

Take a look at the examples in the documentation of the registry or use the following example:

# Set the required provider and versions
terraform {
  required_providers {
    # We recommend pinning to the specific version of the Docker Provider you're using
    # since new versions are released frequently
    docker = {
      source  = "kreuzwerker/docker"
      # or if you want to pull from opentfu
      source = "registry.opentofu.org/kreuzwerker/docker"
      version = "4.4.0"
    }
  }
}

# Configure the docker provider
provider "docker" {
}

# Create a docker image resource
# -> docker pull nginx:latest
resource "docker_image" "nginx" {
  name         = "nginx:latest"
  keep_locally = true
}

# Create a docker container resource
# -> same as 'docker run --name nginx -p8080:80 -d nginx:latest'
resource "docker_container" "nginx" {
  name    = "nginx"
  image   = docker_image.nginx.image_id

  ports {
    external = 8080
    internal = 80
  }
}

# Or create a service resource
# -> same as 'docker service create -d -p 8081:80 --name nginx-service --replicas 2 nginx:latest'
resource "docker_service" "nginx_service" {
  name = "nginx-service"
  task_spec {
    container_spec {
      image = docker_image.nginx.repo_digest
    }
  }

  mode {
    replicated {
      replicas = 2
    }
  }

  endpoint_spec {
    ports {
      published_port = 8081
      target_port    = 80
    }
  }
}

Building The Provider

Go 1.18.x (to build the provider plugin)

$ git clone git@github.com:kreuzwerker/terraform-provider-docker
$ make build

Contributing

The Terraform Docker Provider is the work of many of contributors. We appreciate your help!

To contribute, please read the contribution guidelines: Contributing to Terraform - Docker Provider

License

The Terraform Provider Docker is available to everyone under the terms of the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0. Take a look the LICENSE file.

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