Matthias Grüter

Agreed! Not sure yet how docker publishing aligns with gradle's publishing APIs. But a seperation of build and publish is necessary independent of how the publish will look like in...

We just upgraded to docker-java dependency to version 2.2.0 on master. The change will be in version 1.3.

Refer to the discussion in PR #63 for some more information. I would like to add this feature but probably not in upcoming 1.3 release.

You could replace the `distDocker` task instead of extending it with `task distDocker (overwrite: true)` See https://gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/more_about_tasks.html

The inputs to the task should probably be the files that are added to the image. If no files are added then `build.gradle` serves as a good proxy. Maybe Gradle's...

This is fixed in master and will be part of upcoming version 1.3

True, this is a bug. The plugin copies the external dockerfile so that it could be extended by instructions from the build script. However while copying it, the dockerfile's context...

Agreed! I'd like to fix this ASAP. The plugin should be able to double-tag the image.

Creating containers from images, then running, pausing and stopping them would be a nice feature. I think it would be best to implement this as seperate tasks (`DockerRun`, `DockerStop`, ...)...

It might be worthwhile to check out @bmuschko (https://github.com/bmuschko/gradle-docker-plugin) docker plugin. Maybe something we can build on.