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description: "How to develop and use a plugin with the managed plugin system"
keywords: "API, Usage, plugins, documentation, developer"
---

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# Plugin Config Version 1 of Plugin V2

This document outlines the format of the V0 plugin configuration.

Plugin configs describe the various constituents of a docker plugin. Plugin
configs can be serialized to JSON format with the following media types:

| Config Type | Media Type                              |
|-------------|-----------------------------------------|
| config      | "application/vnd.docker.plugin.v1+json" |

## *Config* Field Descriptions

Config provides the base accessible fields for working with V0 plugin format
 in the registry.

- **`description`** *string*

    description of the plugin

- **`documentation`** *string*

    link to the documentation about the plugin

- **`interface`** *PluginInterface*

   interface implemented by the plugins, struct consisting of the following fields

    - **`types`** *string array*

      types indicate what interface(s) the plugin currently implements.

      currently supported:

        - **docker.volumedriver/1.0**

        - **docker.networkdriver/1.0**

        - **docker.ipamdriver/1.0**

        - **docker.authz/1.0**

        - **docker.logdriver/1.0**

        - **docker.metricscollector/1.0**

    - **`socket`** *string*

      socket is the name of the socket the engine should use to communicate with the plugins.
      the socket will be created in `/run/docker/plugins`.


- **`entrypoint`** *string array*

   entrypoint of the plugin, see [`ENTRYPOINT`](../reference/builder.md#entrypoint)

- **`workdir`** *string*

   workdir of the plugin, see [`WORKDIR`](../reference/builder.md#workdir)

- **`network`** *PluginNetwork*

   network of the plugin, struct consisting of the following fields

    - **`type`** *string*

      network type.

      currently supported:

      	- **bridge**
      	- **host**
      	- **none**

- **`mounts`** *PluginMount array*

   mount of the plugin, struct consisting of the following fields, see [`MOUNTS`](https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/master/config.md#mounts)

    - **`name`** *string*

      name of the mount.

    - **`description`** *string*

      description of the mount.

    - **`source`** *string*

      source of the mount.

    - **`destination`** *string*

      destination of the mount.

    - **`type`** *string*

      mount type.

    - **`options`** *string array*

      options of the mount.

- **`ipchost`** *boolean*
   Access to host ipc namespace.
- **`pidhost`** *boolean*
   Access to host pid namespace.

- **`propagatedMount`** *string*

   path to be mounted as rshared, so that mounts under that path are visible to docker. This is useful for volume plugins.
   This path will be bind-mounted outside of the plugin rootfs so it's contents
   are preserved on upgrade.

- **`env`** *PluginEnv array*

   env of the plugin, struct consisting of the following fields

    - **`name`** *string*

      name of the env.

    - **`description`** *string*

      description of the env.

    - **`value`** *string*

      value of the env.

- **`args`** *PluginArgs*

   args of the plugin, struct consisting of the following fields

    - **`name`** *string*

      name of the args.

    - **`description`** *string*

      description of the args.

    - **`value`** *string array*

      values of the args.

- **`linux`** *PluginLinux*

    - **`capabilities`** *string array*

       capabilities of the plugin (*Linux only*), see list [`here`](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/blob/master/libcontainer/SPEC.md#security)

    - **`allowAllDevices`** *boolean*

       If `/dev` is bind mounted from the host, and allowAllDevices is set to true, the plugin will have `rwm` access to all devices on the host.

    - **`devices`** *PluginDevice array*

       device of the plugin, (*Linux only*), struct consisting of the following fields, see [`DEVICES`](https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/master/config-linux.md#devices)

         - **`name`** *string*

           name of the device.

         - **`description`** *string*

           description of the device.

         - **`path`** *string*

           path of the device.

## Example Config

*Example showing the 'tiborvass/sample-volume-plugin' plugin config.*

```json
{
  "Args": {
    "Description": "",
    "Name": "",
    "Settable": null,
    "Value": null
  },
  "Description": "A sample volume plugin for Docker",
  "Documentation": "https://docs.docker.com/engine/extend/plugins/",
  "Entrypoint": [
    "/usr/bin/sample-volume-plugin",
    "/data"
  ],
  "Env": [
    {
      "Description": "",
      "Name": "DEBUG",
      "Settable": [
        "value"
      ],
      "Value": "0"
    }
  ],
  "Interface": {
    "Socket": "plugin.sock",
    "Types": [
      "docker.volumedriver/1.0"
    ]
  },
  "Linux": {
    "Capabilities": null,
    "AllowAllDevices": false,
    "Devices": null
  },
  "Mounts": null,
  "Network": {
    "Type": ""
  },
  "PropagatedMount": "/data",
  "User": {},
  "Workdir": ""
}
```
