What Is a Docker Config

Docker swarm service configs allow you to store non-sensitive information, such as configuration files, outside a service’s image or running containers. This allows you to keep your images as generic as possible, without the need to bind-mount configuration files into the containers or use environment variables.

Where is Docker config?

Configure Docker with a configuration file The preferred method for configuring the Docker Engine on Windows is using a configuration file. The configuration file can be found at ‘C:\ProgramData\Docker\config\daemon.

What is Docker config JSON?

The config. json file stores a JSON encoding of several properties: • The HttpHeaders property specifies a set of headers to include in all messages sent from the Docker client to the daemon. Docker does not try to interpret or understand these header; it simply puts them into the messages.