The Docker plugin provides an easy way to manage and create Docker containers.

Key Features

• Can create and delete Docker containers

• Use local image or get one from DockerHub

• Connect a container to a network

Plugin Operations

• createContainer
• startContainer
• stopContainer
• killContainer
  
• connectNetwork
• disconnectNetwork

The docker host must be started with the -H option. This is set by adding a DOCKER_OPTS variable in /etc/default/docker. For Ubuntu systems, this is added to /lib/systemd/system/docker.service