Asynchronous Client

Starting from 2.0, Docker-PHP proposes an Asynchronous PHP Client using Amp and Artax.

Installation

Since it's optional you will have to require artax with composer to use it:

composer require amphp/artax:^3.0

Usage

Then you can use the DockerAsync API Client:

<?php

use Amp\Loop;
use Docker\API\Model\ContainersCreatePostBody;
use Docker\DockerAsync;

Loop::run(function () {
    $docker = DockerAsync::create();

    $containerConfig = new ContainersCreatePostBody();
    $containerConfig->setImage('busybox:latest');
    $containerConfig->setCmd(['echo', '-n', 'output']);
    $containerConfig->setAttachStdout(true);
    $containerConfig->setLabels(new \ArrayObject(['docker-php-test' => 'true']));

    $response = yield $docker->imageCreate(null, [
        'fromImage' => 'busybox:latest',
    ], DockerAsync::FETCH_RESPONSE);

    yield $response->getBody();

    $containerCreate = yield $docker->containerCreate($containerConfig);
    $containerStart = yield $docker->containerStart($containerCreate->getId());
    /** @var \Docker\API\Model\ContainersIdJsonGetResponse200 $containerInfo */
    $containerInfo = yield $docker->containerInspect($containerCreate->getId());

    var_dump($containerInfo->getName());
});

API of DockerAsync is exactly the same as Docker, at the exception that each endpoint will always return an Amp\Promise object, which allows to you to do parallelism and await them with the yield keyword.

If you are not familiar with this kind of API, please look at the Amp documentation on that subject