Simple docker image based on alpine3.6 with docker client (17.06.2-ce) installed.

• install docker client
  • install curl
  • fetch docker binaries archive
  • unzip archive
  • move docker client binary
  • remove curl and cleanup artifacts

Since this image is designed to work with the host docker engine, you need to pass the socket.

# display stats
docker run -it -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock cethy/alpine-docker-client stats

Example building a new image with another docker client :

docker build --build-arg DOCKER_CLI_VERSION="17.03.1-ce" -t my-alpine-docker .
docker run my-alpine-docker
# will output : Docker version 17.03.1-ce, build c6d412e

https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/

cethy/alpine-docker-compose