dotnet/Docker.DotNet

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Docker.DotNet is a fully asynchronous .NET (C#) client library for the Docker Remote API, letting applications interact programmatically with a Docker daemon. It supports connections over TCP, named pipes, and Unix sockets, and is distributed via NuGet.

Use cases

• manage docker containers from a c# application
• programmatically start and stop docker containers in .net
• build a custom docker dashboard in dotnet
• inspect docker images and containers via the remote api
• stream container logs from docker in c#
• automate docker operations in ci tooling written in .net

When to choose

• you are building a .NET or C# application that needs to control or monitor Docker daemons
• you need an asynchronous, object-oriented wrapper over the Docker Remote API
• you need to connect to Docker over named pipes, Unix sockets, or TCP from .NET

When to avoid

• you are not working in the .NET ecosystem (use the official Docker SDKs for Go or Python instead)
• you only need to run occasional docker commands from scripts (the docker CLI is simpler)
• you need a Docker client for a language without .NET Standard 2.0 support

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http-client developer-tools developer-tools apis dotnet cross-platform docker-api docker-client csharp nuget async containers devops docker

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