RUN GUI APPLICATION IN DOCKER CONTAINER
In this section, we will discuss how to launch a GUI application in a DOCKER container.
Docker is powerful container technology. If you want to launch a container just one click and boom! there you go your container is ready to use.
There can be two types of applications (usually services) that you can containerize,
- Applications that run as a Background Service (like a Database, WebServer, etc)
- GUI Applications that (obviously!) run in the foreground.
Let’s see how to do it →
- First, create an image for your container.
→ Here, I use centos as a base image
→ then install firefox.
→ then run CMD /usr/bin/firefox/ {to start firefox as soon as the container starts.}
→ Now, run the docker build command with the -t tag command to create your image.
docker build -t arthtask .
2. Now, the image is created.
3. Now, we will set the DISPLAY environment. We will launch the docker container with the network same as the host.
docker container run –it –env=”DISPLAY” — net=host firefox
3. Eventually, our container is launched with GUI.
So, this is how we managed to launch a GUI application inside the docker container.
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