Is there an api flag for equivalent of `docker run -rm` ?

[ikreymer]

I would like to create containers that are removed automatically when they exit, just realized that docker run -rm exists but there does not appear to be a flag for this in create_container ? Or am I missing something? Thanks

[dnephin]

I believe that functionality is handled by the client. That's how we handle it in Compose: https://github.com/docker/compose/blob/master/compose/cli/main.py#L639-L641

This is likely why --rm is incompatible with -d, because the client wouldn't have any idea when the container exited.

[ikreymer]

ok, thanks, I will look for a different way to do it..

[shin-]

See also: #77 #330

[ikreymer]

hi, thanks for the follow up, I narrowed down my issue to the following.
I am already using remove_container and that works great.
But, occasionally I have seen create_container throw an exception: APIError: 500 Server Error: Internal Server Error ("Container created but refresh didn't report it back") and the container exists but gets stuck in the 'created' state.

Would it perhaps be possible to return the container id in this case so that it can still be removed with remove_container

[shin-]

That would be a swarm issue. Nothing we can do about it at the client level.