Lazytainer - Lazy Load Containers

Putting your containers to sleep

How it works

Monitors network traffic for active connections and recieved packets
If traffic looks to be idle, container stops
If traffic is incoming to stopped container, container starts

Want to test it?

$ git clone https://github.com/vmorganp/Lazytainer
$ cd Lazytainer
$ docker-compose up 

Or put in your docker-compose.yaml

  lazytainer:
    container_name: lazytainer
    image: ghcr.io/vmorganp/lazytainer:master
    environment:
      - PORT=81               # comma separated list of ports...or just the one 
      - LABEL=lazytainer      # value of lazytainer.marker for other containers that lazytainer checks
      # - TIMEOUT=30          # OPTIONAL number of seconds to let container idle
      # - MINPACKETTHRESH=10  # OPTIONAL number of packets that must be recieved to keepalive/start container 
      # - POLLRATE=1          # OPTIONAL number of seconds to sleep between polls
      # - VERBOSE=true        # probably set this to false unless you're debugging or doing the initial demo
    ports:
      - 81:81
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro

  whoami1:
    container_name: whoami1
    image: containous/whoami
    command: --port 81  # make this run on the port passed through on lazytainer
    network_mode: service:lazytainer
    depends_on: 
      - lazytainer # wait for lazytainer to start before starting
    labels:
      - "lazytainer.marker=lazytainer"  # required label to make it work
      - "lazytainer.sleepMethod=stop"   # can be either "stop" or "pause", or left blank for stop

Configuration

Notes

• Lazytainer does not "automatically" start and stop all of your containers. You must apply a label to them and proxy their traffic through the Lazytainer container.

Environment Variables

Variable	Purpose
PORT	Port number(s) to listen for traffic on. If specifying multiple, they should be comma separated
LABEL	Value for label lazytainer.marker that lazytainer should use to determine which containers to start/stop
TIMEOUT	Number of seconds container will be allowed to run with no traffic before it is stopped
MINPACKETTHRESH	Mimimum amount of recieved network packets to keep container alive
POLLRATE	Number of seconds to wait between polls of network transmission stats
VERBOSE	Whether or not to print noisier logs that may be useful for debugging