Run Run

yaml
type: "io.kestra.plugin.docker.Run"

Run a Docker container

Examples

Run the docker/whalesay container with the command 'cowsay hello'

yaml
id: docker_run
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: run
    type: io.kestra.plugin.docker.Run
    containerImage: docker/whalesay
    commands:
      - cowsay
      - hello

Run the docker/whalesay container with no command

yaml
id: docker_run
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: run
    type: io.kestra.plugin.docker.Run
    containerImage: docker/whalesay

Properties

containerImage

  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required: ✔️
  • Min length: 1

Docker image to use.

commands

  • Type: array
  • SubType: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:
  • Default: []

The commands to run

config

  • Type:
    • string
    • object
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

Docker configuration file.

Docker configuration file that can set access credentials to private container registries. Usually located in ~/.docker/config.json.

cpu

  • Type: Cpu
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:

Limits the CPU usage to a given maximum threshold value.

By default, each container’s access to the host machine’s CPU cycles is unlimited. You can set various constraints to limit a given container’s access to the host machine’s CPU cycles.

credentials

deviceRequests

A list of device requests to be sent to device drivers.

entryPoint

  • Type: array
  • SubType: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

Docker entrypoint to use.

env

  • Type: object
  • SubType: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

Additional environment variables for the Docker container.

extraHosts

  • Type: array
  • SubType: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

Extra hostname mappings to the container network interface configuration.

host

  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

Docker API URI.

inputFiles

  • Type:
    • object
    • string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The files to create on the local filesystem. It can be a map or a JSON object.

memory

  • Type: Memory
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:

Limits memory usage to a given maximum threshold value.

Docker can enforce hard memory limits, which allow the container to use no more than a given amount of user or system memory, or soft limits, which allow the container to use as much memory as it needs unless certain conditions are met, such as when the kernel detects low memory or contention on the host machine. Some of these options have different effects when used alone or when more than one option is set.

namespaceFiles

Inject namespace files.

Inject namespace files to this task. When enabled, it will, by default, load all namespace files into the working directory. However, you can use the include or exclude properties to limit which namespace files will be injected.

networkMode

  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

Docker network mode to use e.g. host, none, etc.

outputFiles

  • Type: array
  • SubType: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The files from the local filesystem to send to Kestra's internal storage.

Must be a list of glob expressions relative to the current working directory, some examples: my-dir/**, my-dir/*/** or my-dir/my-file.txt.

pullPolicy

  • Type: object
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:

shmSize

  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

Size of /dev/shm in bytes.

The size must be greater than 0. If omitted, the system uses 64MB.

user

  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

User in the Docker container.

volumes

  • Type: array
  • SubType: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

List of volumes to mount.

Must be a valid mount expression as string, example : /home/user:/app.

Volumes mount are disabled by default for security reasons; you must enable them on server configuration by setting kestra.tasks.scripts.docker.volume-enabled to true.

warningOnStdErr

  • Type: boolean
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:
  • Default: true

Whether to set the task state to WARNING if any stdErr is emitted.

Outputs

exitCode

  • Type: integer
  • Required: ✔️
  • Default: 0

The exit code of the entire flow execution.

outputFiles

  • Type: object
  • SubType: string
  • Required:

The output files' URIs in Kestra's internal storage.

vars

  • Type: object
  • Required:

The value extracted from the output of the executed commands.

Definitions

io.kestra.core.models.tasks.NamespaceFiles

Properties

enabled
  • Type: boolean
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:
  • Default: true

Whether to enable namespace files to be loaded into the working directory. If explicitly set to true in a task, it will load all Namespace Files into the task's working directory. Note that this property is by default set to true so that you can specify only the include and exclude properties to filter the files to load without having to explicitly set enabled to true.

exclude
  • Type: array
  • SubType: string
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:

A list of filters to exclude matching glob patterns. This allows you to exclude a subset of the Namespace Files from being downloaded at runtime. You can combine this property together with include to only inject a subset of files that you need into the task's working directory.

include
  • Type: array
  • SubType: string
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:

A list of filters to include only matching glob patterns. This allows you to only load a subset of the Namespace Files into the working directory.

io.kestra.plugin.scripts.runner.docker.Cpu

Properties

cpus
  • Type: integer
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:

The maximum amount of CPU resources a container can use.

Make sure to set that to a numeric value e.g. cpus: "1.5" or cpus: "4" or For instance, if the host machine has two CPUs and you set cpus: "1.5", the container is guaranteed at most one and a half of the CPUs.

io.kestra.plugin.scripts.runner.docker.Memory

Properties

kernelMemory
  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The maximum amount of kernel memory the container can use.

The minimum allowed value is 4MB. Because kernel memory cannot be swapped out, a container which is starved of kernel memory may block host machine resources, which can have side effects on the host machine and on other containers. See the kernel-memory docs for more details.

memory
  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The maximum amount of memory resources the container can use.

Make sure to use the format number + unit (regardless of the case) without any spaces. The unit can be KB (kilobytes), MB (megabytes), GB (gigabytes), etc.

Given that it's case-insensitive, the following values are equivalent:

  • "512MB"
  • "512Mb"
  • "512mb"
  • "512000KB"
  • "0.5GB"

It is recommended that you allocate at least 6MB.

memoryReservation
  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

Allows you to specify a soft limit smaller than memory which is activated when Docker detects contention or low memory on the host machine.

If you use memoryReservation, it must be set lower than memory for it to take precedence. Because it is a soft limit, it does not guarantee that the container doesn’t exceed the limit.

memorySwap
  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The total amount of memory and swap that can be used by a container.

If memory and memorySwap are set to the same value, this prevents containers from using any swap. This is because memorySwap includes both the physical memory and swap space, while memory is only the amount of physical memory that can be used.

memorySwappiness
  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

A setting which controls the likelihood of the kernel to swap memory pages.

By default, the host kernel can swap out a percentage of anonymous pages used by a container. You can set memorySwappiness to a value between 0 and 100 to tune this percentage.

oomKillDisable
  • Type: boolean
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:

By default, if an out-of-memory (OOM) error occurs, the kernel kills processes in a container.

To change this behavior, use the oomKillDisable option. Only disable the OOM killer on containers where you have also set the memory option. If the memory flag is not set, the host can run out of memory, and the kernel may need to kill the host system’s processes to free the memory.

io.kestra.plugin.scripts.runner.docker.Credentials

Properties

auth
  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The registry authentication.

The auth field is a base64-encoded authentication string of username:password or a token.

identityToken
  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The identity token.

password
  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The registry password.

registry
  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The registry URL.

If not defined, the registry will be extracted from the image name.

registryToken
  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The registry token.

username
  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:

The registry username.

io.kestra.plugin.scripts.runner.docker.DeviceRequest

Properties

capabilities
  • Type: array
  • SubType: array
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:

A list of capabilities; an OR list of AND lists of capabilities.

count
  • Type: integer
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:
deviceIds
  • Type: array
  • SubType: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:
driver
  • Type: string
  • Dynamic: ✔️
  • Required:
options
  • Type: object
  • SubType: string
  • Dynamic:
  • Required:

Driver-specific options, specified as key/value pairs.

These options are passed directly to the driver.

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