CURL — using notes

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Intro

I think so curl is fun, I had many opportunities to play with curl by POSTing, or for example reading session from cookies, so would like to summarized it.

Test Environment

• Ubuntu 18.04 + docker and docker-compose
• Curl
• jq
• Jenkins for docker

Let’s start

• Simple docker-compose for Jenkins

version: '3.7'
services:
  jenkins:
    image: jenkins/jenkins:lts
    privileged: true
    user: root
    ports:
      - 8081:8080
      - 50000:50000
    container_name: jenkins
    volumes:
      - /tmpy:/var/jenkins_home
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - /usr/local/bin/docker:/usr/local/bin/docker

• Run command docker-compose up -d and after starting the container, go to the address http: //<IP-ADDRESS>: 8081. We will need password from container we can get it with this command docker exec jenkins cat /var/jenkins_home/secrets/initialAdminPassword. After complete the configuration of Jenkins, we can start play with curl.

GET

If you just want to make a GET request, you don’t need any options.

root@vagrant:/home/vagrant/jenkins# curl http://192.168.123.123:8081/api/json |…