dockerhelpers.py

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"""
Some docker related convenience functions
"""

import os
from structlog import get_logger

from docker import Client


log = get_logger()


def get_my_containers_name():
    """
    Return the docker containers name in which this process is running.
    To look up the container name, we use the container ID extracted from the
    $HOSTNAME environment variable (which is set by docker conventions).
    :return: String with the docker container name (or None if any issue is
             encountered)
    """
    my_container_id = os.environ.get('HOSTNAME', None)

    try:
        docker_cli = Client(base_url='unix://tmp/docker.sock')
        info = docker_cli.inspect_container(my_container_id)

    except Exception, e:
        log.exception('failed', my_container_id=my_container_id, e=e)
        raise

    name = info['Name'].lstrip('/')

    return name