docker offload create
| Description | Create a Docker Offload cloud sandbox |
|---|---|
| Usage | docker offload create [OPTIONS] |
Description
Create a Docker Offload cloud sandbox.
This command is available when Enable Docker Offload is turned off in Docker Desktop settings, or doesn't appear. If the setting is on, you'll be asked to switch it off before continuing.
If a sandbox already exists for your account, create connects to it instead
of creating a second one, and resumes it if it's paused.
A sandbox pauses once it has been idle for its idle timeout, which is 5m
unless you set it: nothing working inside it, and no command, build or pull
in flight. Pausing keeps its containers, and a docker command that needs the
sandbox, such as run, start or attach, resumes it. Attached sessions
are cut off by a pause; reattach with docker attach. Exec sessions have to
be started again.
Set the idle timeout with --idle-timeout, at least 1m, or turn pausing off
with --keep-alive. Either applies at once to a sandbox that's already
running, and is kept for that sandbox on this machine; a new sandbox starts
from 5m. A kept-alive sandbox runs until you stop it, but still pauses if
this machine sleeps past its --ttl, and after 24h.
--cpus, --memory and --ttl apply only when a sandbox is created. If a
sandbox is already running, they aren't applied and create tells you so.
To resize, create again with --recreate, which deletes the sandbox and
everything on it.
Options
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
--cpus | The number of CPUs for a new sandbox: 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 | |
--idle-timeout | How long the sandbox may be idle before it pauses, as a duration like 30m (default 5m, minimum 1m, 0 is --keep-alive) | |
--keep-alive | Never pause the sandbox for being idle | |
--memory | Memory for a new sandbox, as a size like 16g | |
--recreate | Recreate the sandbox if it is a different size than asked for. Deletes the old sandbox and everything on it. | |
--timeout | 15m0s | How long to wait for the sandbox to be ready |
--ttl | How long the sandbox keeps running after the daemon stops renewing it, for example if this machine sleeps or goes offline, as a duration like 4h |
Examples
Create a sandbox and connect to it
$ docker offload create
Create a sandbox with a chosen size and lifetime
$ docker offload create --cpus 8 --memory 16g --ttl 4h
Change the idle timeout
Applies at once to a sandbox that's already running:
$ docker offload create --idle-timeout 30m
Keep a sandbox awake
The sandbox runs, and bills, until you stop it:
$ docker offload create --keep-alive
