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description: “How to develop and use a plugin with the managed plugin system” keywords: “API, Usage, plugins, documentation, developer” title: Plugin Config Version 1 of Plugin V2

This document outlines the format of the V0 plugin configuration.

Plugin configs describe the various constituents of a Docker engine plugin. Plugin configs can be serialized to JSON format with the following media types:

Config Type	Media Type
config	application/vnd.docker.plugin.v1+json

Config Field Descriptions

Config provides the base accessible fields for working with V0 plugin format in the registry.

• description string

  Description of the plugin

• documentation string

  Link to the documentation about the plugin

• interface PluginInterface

  Interface implemented by the plugins, struct consisting of the following fields:

  • types string array

    Types indicate what interface(s) the plugin currently implements.

    Supported types:

    • docker.volumedriver/1.0

    • docker.networkdriver/1.0

    • docker.ipamdriver/1.0

    • docker.authz/1.0

    • docker.logdriver/1.0

    • docker.metricscollector/1.0

  • socket string

    Socket is the name of the socket the engine should use to communicate with the plugins. the socket will be created in /run/docker/plugins.

• entrypoint string array

  Entrypoint of the plugin, see ENTRYPOINT

• workdir string

  Working directory of the plugin, see WORKDIR

• network PluginNetwork

  Network of the plugin, struct consisting of the following fields:

  • type string

    Network type.

    Supported types:

    • bridge
    • host
    • none

• mounts PluginMount array

  Mount of the plugin, struct consisting of the following fields. See MOUNTS.

  • name string

    Name of the mount.

  • description string

    Description of the mount.

  • source string

    Source of the mount.

  • destination string

    Destination of the mount.

  • type string

    Mount type.

  • options string array

    Options of the mount.

• ipchost Boolean

  Access to host ipc namespace.

• pidhost Boolean

  Access to host PID namespace.

• propagatedMount string

  Path to be mounted as rshared, so that mounts under that path are visible to Docker. This is useful for volume plugins. This path will be bind-mounted outside of the plugin rootfs so it's contents are preserved on upgrade.

• env PluginEnv array

  Environment variables of the plugin, struct consisting of the following fields:

  • name string

    Name of the environment variable.

  • description string

    Description of the environment variable.

  • value string

    Value of the environment variable.

• args PluginArgs

  Arguments of the plugin, struct consisting of the following fields:

  • name string

    Name of the arguments.

  • description string

    Description of the arguments.

  • value string array

    Values of the arguments.

• linux PluginLinux

  • capabilities string array

    Capabilities of the plugin (Linux only), see list here

  • allowAllDevices Boolean

    If /dev is bind mounted from the host, and allowAllDevices is set to true, the plugin will have rwm access to all devices on the host.

  • devices PluginDevice array

    Device of the plugin, (Linux only), struct consisting of the following fields. See DEVICES.

    • name string

      Name of the device.

    • description string

      Description of the device.

    • path string

      Path of the device.

Example Config

The following example shows the ‘tiborvass/sample-volume-plugin’ plugin config.

{
  "Args": {
    "Description": "",
    "Name": "",
    "Settable": null,
    "Value": null
  },
  "Description": "A sample volume plugin for Docker",
  "Documentation": "https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/plugins/",
  "Entrypoint": [
    "/usr/bin/sample-volume-plugin",
    "/data"
  ],
  "Env": [
    {
      "Description": "",
      "Name": "DEBUG",
      "Settable": [
        "value"
      ],
      "Value": "0"
    }
  ],
  "Interface": {
    "Socket": "plugin.sock",
    "Types": [
      "docker.volumedriver/1.0"
    ]
  },
  "Linux": {
    "Capabilities": null,
    "AllowAllDevices": false,
    "Devices": null
  },
  "Mounts": null,
  "Network": {
    "Type": ""
  },
  "PropagatedMount": "/data",
  "User": {},
  "Workdir": ""
}