Docker provider example

[Kodzo Wozufia]

Hi,

I'm looking for a full example about Docker provider. 

I think that the documentation lacks details.

Best regards

[David Maze]

On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 11:04:18 AM UTC-4, Kodzo Wozufia wrote:

I'm looking for a full example about Docker provider. 

https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/docker/index.html has a basic example.  It does involve understanding Docker concepts like "image" vs. "container".

I opined on another post on this forum that the Docker provider is probably the wrong tool.  Docker Compose, especially with its expanded v2 syntax, can do everything Terraform can; in my environment I use Terraform to provision EC2 instances and then use Ansible's Docker support to actually run containers.

What are you trying to do with Terraform and Docker more specifically? 

[Kodzo Wozufia]

Thank you for sharing your experience; I'll try your solutions.

When I try to create a container from a previously vm created (with Terraform via OpenStack), I get an error related to the opening of the port:

$ terraform plan

=> "Error pinging Docker server [...] connectex: no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it".

When I open the port with the command "nc -kl  <port>" on the VM, no error occurs but the command doesn't  seem to execute.

$ terraform plan

=> "Refreshing Terraform state prior to plan... "