Emulating `docker run` using the golang docker API

Question

How can I achieve the equivalent of

sudo docker run -it --rm --name my-python-container -v "$PWD":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp python:2-slim python test.py

using the Docker API for Golang?

Either https://github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient or https://github.com/samalba/dockerclient is fine.

Answer 1

Using github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient, you have to first create a container, using the CreateContainerOptions to add the same options that you can via the command line.

container, err := client.CreateContainer(createContainerOptions)

Once you have the container, you start it, with any extra options or overrides in the HostConfig

client.StartContainer(container.ID, hostConfig)

To connect to the std io streams of a container, you need to use client.AttachToContainer, and assign the appropriate stream in the AttachToContinerOptions.