ubuntu/curl repository overview

ubuntu/curl is a rock for curl maintained by Canonical⁠.

Curl is a command-line tool for transferring data with URL syntax. It supports various protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It also support features like SSL/TLS, authentication, and proxy support.

Curl is widely used for testing and interacting with APIs, downloading files, and performing network diagnostics.

This is a minimal rock containing only the Curl command-line tool.

[Learn more about curl⁠]

⁠Tags and Architectures

NOTE: These tags follow a specific naming convention that respects the concept of channels⁠.

⁠Get started

This rock's entrypoint is Pebble, a container-optimized init process that enables the orchestration of a collection of local service processes as an organized set.

[Learn more about Pebble⁠]

⁠Inspect

To view the Pebble services⁠ and checks⁠ defined in this rock:

docker run --rm ubuntu/curl:8.18-26.04_edge plan

⁠Run

To run this rock, use any of the usual container runtimes, for example, docker:

docker run --name curl-container \
    ubuntu/curl:8.18-26.04_edge \
    exec curl -I https://ubuntu.com/

The container outputs the HTTP response headers of "https://ubuntu.com/⁠", using curl.

⁠Get logs

To view the logs of the running container, run:

docker exec curl-container pebble logs

Or, for a specific service:

docker exec curl-container pebble logs <service>

⁠Monitor health checks

Rocks may have predefined health checks that you can list by running:

docker exec curl-container pebble checks

The overall health of your container can be inspected via:

docker exec curl-container pebble health

[Report a bug⁠] [Contribute⁠]

Canonical is the provider of this container image. It is the user's responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses for all software contained within, as well as with Canonical’s IP Policy⁠.