Implement using dockercfg from a file-like object #2040
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This allows a number of different scenarios, for example, in situations where the user running docker-py does not have permission to read the .docker/config.json file. I encountered this situation when bind-mounting /root/.docker/config.json to a container that's running an application that uses docker-py as unprivileged user inside the container. A parent process running root can pass the file descriptor to the application:
and the application can read it as such: