node-docker-monitor

This library is developed to perform one simple function: help to maintain list of running Docker containers on a single host.

More details about usage of node-docker-monitor with fully functional example https://memz.co/api-gateway-microservices-docker-node-js/

Install

Install locally

npm install node-docker-monitor

Quick start

Following simple snippet starts monitoring containers on local host

var monitor = require('node-docker-monitor');

monitor({
    onContainerUp: function(container) {
        console.log('Container up: ', container)
    },

    onContainerDown: function(container) {
        console.log('Container down: ', container)
    }
});

Container object has following structure

{
   "Command": "/bin/sh -c '/bin/bash -c 'cd /home; mkdir data; node main/app.js''",
   "Created": 1431402173,
   "Id": "81cde361ec7b069cc1ee32a4660176306a2b1d3a3eb52f96f17380f10e75d2e2",
   "Image": "m4all-next:15-0511-1104",
   "Names": ["/m4all-next"],
   "Ports": [
     {
       "IP": "172.17.42.1",
       "PrivatePort": 3000,
       "PublicPort": 3002,
       "Type": "tcp"
     }
   ],
   "Status": "Up About an hour",
   "Name": "m4all-next"
 }

When monitor starts, it calls onContainerUp() callback for all currently running containers and then starts listening to Docker events, calling onContainerUp() and onContainerDown() when appropriate.

API

• function(handler, [dockerOptions | dockerodeObject], [options]) - starts monitor with event handler that will receive events. Even handler must have onContainerUp(containerInfo, docker) and onContainerDown(containerInfo, docker) functions receiving parameters containerInfo - container info and docker - dockerode Docker() object. By default, it communicates to local Docker instance via /var/run/docker.sock Unix socket. You can change default Docker configuration by providing either configuration object or pre-constructed Docker (for more details see).
  • Options.strategy - 'monitorAll' (default) | 'monitorSelected' - whether to monitor all containers or only selected.
  • Option.selectorLabel - 'node-docker-monitor' (default) - Label to be used on docker container to select or deselect container for monitoring.

Option examples

• {} or {strategy: 'monitorAll'} - monitor all containers except those that have label node-docker-monitor with negative value - '0' | 'null' | 'false' | 'disable' | 'disabled' | ''
• {strategy: 'monitorSelected'} - monitor only containers that have label node-docker-monitor with positive value - any string except '0' | 'null' | 'false' | 'disable' | 'disabled' | ''
• {strategy: 'monitorSelected', selectorLabel: 'monitor-me'} - monitor only containers that have label monitor-me with positive value - any string except '0' | 'null' | 'false' | 'disable' | 'disabled' | ''

Usage example of node-docker-monitor with fully functional API Gateway for microservices here

License

ISC License (ISC)

Copyright (c) 2015, Andrey Chausenko [email protected]

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