description | keywords | advisory |
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How to manage image and container filesystems with external plugins |
Examples, Usage, storage, image, docker, data, graph, plugin, api |
experimental |
- Support v2 plugins
Docker graph driver plugins enable admins to use an external/out-of-process graph driver for use with Docker engine. This is an alternative to using the built-in storage drivers, such as overlay2.
You need to install and enable the plugin and then restart the Docker daemon before using the plugin. See the following example for the correct ordering of steps.
$ docker plugin install cpuguy83/docker-overlay2-graphdriver-plugin # this command also enables the driver
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$ pkill dockerd
$ dockerd --experimental -s cpuguy83/docker-overlay2-graphdriver-plugin
See the plugin documentation for detailed information on the underlying plugin protocol.
If a plugin registers itself as a GraphDriver
when activated, then it is
expected to provide the rootfs for containers as well as image layer storage.
Request:
{
"Home": "/graph/home/path",
"Opts": [],
"UIDMaps": [],
"GIDMaps": []
}
Initialize the graph driver plugin with a home directory and array of options. These are passed through from the user, but the plugin is not required to parse or honor them.
The request also includes a list of UID and GID mappings, structed as follows:
{
"ContainerID": 0,
"HostID": 0,
"Size": 0
}
Response:
{
"Err": ""
}
Respond with a non-empty string error if an error occurred.
Request:
{}
Get behavioral characteristics of the graph driver. If a plugin does not handle this request, the engine will use default values for all capabilities.
Response:
{
"ReproducesExactDiffs": false,
}
Respond with values of capabilities:
- ReproducesExactDiffs Defaults to false. Flags that this driver is capable of reproducing exactly equivalent diffs for read-only filesystem layers.
Request:
{
"ID": "46fe8644f2572fd1e505364f7581e0c9dbc7f14640bd1fb6ce97714fb6fc5187",
"Parent": "2cd9c322cb78a55e8212aa3ea8425a4180236d7106938ec921d0935a4b8ca142",
"MountLabel": "",
"StorageOpt": {}
}
Create a new, empty, read-only filesystem layer with the specified
ID
, Parent
and MountLabel
. If Parent
is an empty string, there is no
parent layer. StorageOpt
is map of strings which indicate storage options.
Response:
{
"Err": ""
}
Respond with a non-empty string error if an error occurred.
Request:
{
"ID": "46fe8644f2572fd1e505364f7581e0c9dbc7f14640bd1fb6ce97714fb6fc5187",
"Parent": "2cd9c322cb78a55e8212aa3ea8425a4180236d7106938ec921d0935a4b8ca142",
"MountLabel": "",
"StorageOpt": {}
}
Similar to /GraphDriver.Create
but creates a read-write filesystem layer.
Request:
{
"ID": "46fe8644f2572fd1e505364f7581e0c9dbc7f14640bd1fb6ce97714fb6fc5187"
}
Remove the filesystem layer with this given ID
.
Response:
{
"Err": ""
}
Respond with a non-empty string error if an error occurred.
Request:
{
"ID": "46fe8644f2572fd1e505364f7581e0c9dbc7f14640bd1fb6ce97714fb6fc5187",
"MountLabel": ""
}
Get the mountpoint for the layered filesystem referred to by the given ID
.
Response:
{
"Dir": "/var/mygraph/46fe8644f2572fd1e505364f7581e0c9dbc7f14640bd1fb6ce97714fb6fc5187",
"Err": ""
}
Respond with the absolute path to the mounted layered filesystem. Respond with a non-empty string error if an error occurred.
Request:
{
"ID": "46fe8644f2572fd1e505364f7581e0c9dbc7f14640bd1fb6ce97714fb6fc5187"
}
Release the system resources for the specified ID
, such as unmounting the
filesystem layer.
Response:
{
"Err": ""
}
Respond with a non-empty string error if an error occurred.
Request:
{
"ID": "46fe8644f2572fd1e505364f7581e0c9dbc7f14640bd1fb6ce97714fb6fc5187"
}
Determine if a filesystem layer with the specified ID
exists.
Response:
{
"Exists": true
}
Respond with a boolean for whether or not the filesystem layer with the specified
ID
exists.
Request:
{}
Get low-level diagnostic information about the graph driver.
Response:
{
"Status": [[]]
}
Respond with a 2-D array with key/value pairs for the underlying status information.
Request:
{
"ID": "46fe8644f2572fd1e505364f7581e0c9dbc7f14640bd1fb6ce97714fb6fc5187"
}
Get low-level diagnostic information about the layered filesystem with the
with the specified ID
Response:
{
"Metadata": {},
"Err": ""
}
Respond with a set of key/value pairs containing the low-level diagnostic information about the layered filesystem. Respond with a non-empty string error if an error occurred.
Request:
{}
Perform necessary tasks to release resources help by the plugin, such as unmounting all the layered file systems.
Response:
{
"Err": ""
}
Respond with a non-empty string error if an error occurred.
Request:
{
"ID": "46fe8644f2572fd1e505364f7581e0c9dbc7f14640bd1fb6ce97714fb6fc5187",
"Parent": "2cd9c322cb78a55e8212aa3ea8425a4180236d7106938ec921d0935a4b8ca142"
}
Get an archive of the changes between the filesystem layers specified by the ID
and Parent
. Parent
may be an empty string, in which case there is no parent.
Response:
{{ TAR STREAM }}
Request:
{
"ID": "46fe8644f2572fd1e505364f7581e0c9dbc7f14640bd1fb6ce97714fb6fc5187",
"Parent": "2cd9c322cb78a55e8212aa3ea8425a4180236d7106938ec921d0935a4b8ca142"
}
Get a list of changes between the filesystem layers specified by the ID
and
Parent
. If Parent
is an empty string, there is no parent.
Response:
{
"Changes": [{}],
"Err": ""
}
Respond with a list of changes. The structure of a change is:
"Path": "/some/path",
"Kind": 0,
Where the Path
is the filesystem path within the layered filesystem that is
changed and Kind
is an integer specifying the type of change that occurred:
- 0 - Modified
- 1 - Added
- 2 - Deleted
Respond with a non-empty string error if an error occurred.
Request:
{{ TAR STREAM }}
Extract the changeset from the given diff into the layer with the specified ID
and Parent
Query Parameters:
- id (required)- the
ID
of the new filesystem layer to extract the diff to - parent (required)- the
Parent
of the givenID
Response:
{
"Size": 512366,
"Err": ""
}
Respond with the size of the new layer in bytes. Respond with a non-empty string error if an error occurred.
Request:
{
"ID": "46fe8644f2572fd1e505364f7581e0c9dbc7f14640bd1fb6ce97714fb6fc5187",
"Parent": "2cd9c322cb78a55e8212aa3ea8425a4180236d7106938ec921d0935a4b8ca142"
}
Calculate the changes between the specified ID
Response:
{
"Size": 512366,
"Err": ""
}
Respond with the size changes between the specified ID
and Parent
Respond with a non-empty string error if an error occurred.