Sean Payne
55 lines
1.8 KiB
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55 lines
1.8 KiB
Markdown
docker-novnc
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This is a minimal image which will help you run X server with openbox on the docker container and access it from ANY recent browser without requiring you to do any configuration on the client side.
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## Use Cases
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1. Provide system application accessible over the web easily. Lets say you want to demo a software which runs on your pc over internet without requiring the clients to install any softwares like Teamviwer,etc.
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2. You can use this to create a simple use & throw linux envinronment with GUI over cloud or any VPS /Server or even at your laptop.
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Especially useful if you have to give access to your friends who come over for facebook/twittering at your PC. :)
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## How to use
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```
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docker run -td -p 6080:6080 zerodivide1/docker-novnc
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#Or if you like to build yourself
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git clone https://github.com/zerodivide1/docker-novnc.git
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cd docker-novnc
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docker build -t novnc .
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docker run -td -p 6080:6080 novnc
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```
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Now visit
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http://kanaka.github.io/noVNC/noVNC/vnc.html
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and enter
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Host as your Public IP of your docker host/server.
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Post = 6080
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Leave password as blank and click connect you should see a nice display within your browser, just right click and open terminal or firefox.
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For access within lan / localhost : visit http://localhost:6080 or http://privateip:6080
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if you are running it in a local docker host or lan ip . click connect. You are good to go.
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## This is a minimal Image
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This comes only with Firefox & Geany text editor installed if you'd like to have more softwares you can freely install them using
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apt-get commands
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ex: apt-get install libreoffice-base libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-calc
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## Support
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* http://docker.com for all the docker based support.
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## Credits
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* [NoVNC](http://kanaka.github.io/noVNC/)
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* [Original docker-novnc project](https://github.com/paimpozhil/docker-novnc)
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