docker-compose/compose/cli/docker_client.py

import logging
import os

from docker import Client
from docker.utils import kwargs_from_env

from ..const import HTTP_TIMEOUT

log = logging.getLogger(__name__)


def docker_client():
    """
    Returns a docker-py client configured using environment variables
    according to the same logic as the official Docker client.
    """
    if 'DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT' in os.environ:
        log.warn('The DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT environment variable is deprecated. Please use COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT instead.')

    kwargs = kwargs_from_env(assert_hostname=False)
    kwargs['version'] = os.environ.get('COMPOSE_API_VERSION', '1.19')
    kwargs['timeout'] = HTTP_TIMEOUT
    return Client(**kwargs)