Added Docker links support to the docker_container resource.

builtin/providers/docker/resource_docker_container.go

@@ -108,6 +108,14 @@ func resourceDockerContainer() *schema.Resource {
 				Elem:     &schema.Schema{Type: schema.TypeString},
 				Set:      stringSetHash,
 			},
+
+			"links": &schema.Schema{
+				Type:     schema.TypeSet,
+				Optional: true,
+				ForceNew: true,
+				Elem:     &schema.Schema{Type: schema.TypeString},
+				Set:      stringSetHash,
+			},
 		},
 	}
 }

builtin/providers/docker/resource_docker_container_funcs.go

@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@ func resourceDockerContainerCreate(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) err
 		hostConfig.DNS = stringSetToStringSlice(v.(*schema.Set))
 	}
 
+	if v, ok := d.GetOk("links"); ok {
+		hostConfig.Links = stringSetToStringSlice(v.(*schema.Set))
+	}
+
 	if err := client.StartContainer(retContainer.ID, hostConfig); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Unable to start container: %s", err)
 	}

website/source/docs/providers/docker/r/container.html.markdown

@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ The following arguments are supported:
     container.
 * `dns` - (Optional, set of strings) Set of DNS servers.
 * `env` - (Optional, set of strings) Environmental variables to set.
+* `links` - (Optional, set of strings) Set of links for link based
+  connectivity between containers that are running on the same host.
 * `hostname` - (Optional, string) Hostname of the container.
 * `domainname` - (Optional, string) Domain name of the container.
 * `must_run` - (Optional, bool) If true, then the Docker container will be