docker.md

Get curl with Docker

The docker image is hosted at https://hub.docker.com/r/curlimages/curl

You can run the latest version of curl with the following command:

docker run -it --rm curlimages/curl www.example.com

Running curl seamlessly in docker

It is possible to make an alias to seamlessly run curl inside a container. Define an alias like the following:

# Bash alias example
alias curl='docker run -it --rm curlimages/curl'

And simply invoke curl www.example.com to make a request

Running curl in kubernetes

Sometimes it can be useful to troubleshoot k8s networking with curl, just like :

kubectl run -i --tty curl --image=curlimages/curl --restart=Never -- "-m 5" www.example.com