In the previous recipes, we explored APIs provided by Docker to connect and perform operations on the Docker daemon. Docker also provides the Software Development Kit for the python and go languages.

In this recipe, let's explore the python SDK with a few examples.

• Ensure python3 is installed.
• ubuntu 16.04 might not have pip3, so install pip3 using the following command:

        $ sudo apt-get -y install python3-pip  
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1. Let's begin by installing the docker package for python using pip3...