Docker Socket

$ curl --silent -XGET --unix-socket /run/docker.sock http://localhost/version | jq .

$ curl --silent -XGET --unix-socket /run/docker.sock http://localhost/info | jq .

$ curl --silent -XGET --unix-socket /run/docker.sock http://localhost/events | jq .

$ curl --silent -XGET --unix-socket /run/docker.sock http://localhost/containers/json | jq .

$ curl --silent -XGET --unix-socket /run/docker.sock -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://localhost/containers/json | jq .

$ curl  --silent -XGET --unix-socket /run/docker.sock http://localhost/containers/baa54b9e178b88ec3d2f4eb4939ca4f59d6e5fc77515ebfbf5d8eec0a95aafcf/json | jq .

$ curl --silent -XGET --unix-socket /run/docker.sock http://localhost/images/json | jq .

CONTAINER_NAME="java-test"
$ curl \
  --silent \
  --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock \
  "http:/containers/create?name=${CONTAINER_NAME}" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "Image": "openjdk:8u111-jre-alpine", "Cmd": [ "java", "-version" ] }' | jq '.'
 
  {
    "Id": "602995e0d277e67417d9ad142959db7853a788bcd079ac33a72e24fb2db2f33c",
    "Warnings": null
  }

$ curl \
  --silent \
  --unix-socket /var/run/docker.sock \
  "http:/containers/${CONTAINER_NAME}/start" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --output /dev/null \
  --write-out "%{http_code}"