getUnboundedDaemon

Retrieves an unbounded daemon.

An unbounded daemon differs from a bound daemon in the following ways:

  • Unbounded daemons do not reserve resources in the dispatcher.

  • Unbounded daemons do not need to be bound to a task.

  • Unbounded daemons cannot use virtualized environment abstraction APIs (Env*Api)

  • Unbounded daemons do not need to be unbinded when no longer needed.

As such, unbounded daemons are generally used when a DockerDaemon is needed to execute either short-lived tasks which are not implemented by the abstraction APIs themselves, e.g. searching images in Docker Hub.

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