docker4ssh - docker containers and more via ssh

docker4ssh is an ssh server that can create new docker containers and re-login into existing ones.

✨ Features · ⌨ Installation · 🖋️ Usage · ⚖ License

Visit the wiki to get more information and detailed usage instructions

✨ Features

• Create containers by images (e.g. ubuntu:21.04@server)
• Create specific containers for specific usernames with profiles
• Containers are configurable from within
• Re-login into existing containers
• Full use of the docker api (unlike docker2ssh, which uses the cli, which theoretically could cause code injection)
• Highly configurable settings

⌨️ Installation

For every install method your OS must be linux and docker has to be installed.

• From the latest release (currently only x64 architecture supported)

  Replace the RELEASE value in the following oneliner with the latest release version.

  $ RELEASE=<latest version>; curl -L https://github.com/ByteDream/docker4ssh/releases/download/v$RELEASE/docker4ssh-$RELEASE.tar.gz | tar -xvzf - -C /

• Building from source

  Before start installing, make sure you have to following things ready:

  • Go installed
  • Rust installed
  • Make installed - optional, but highly recommended since we use make in the further instructions

  To install docker4ssh, just execute the following commands

  $ git clone https://github.com/ByteDream/docker4ssh
  $ cd docker4ssh
  $ make build
  $ make install

• Install it from the AUR (if you're using arch or an arch based distro)

  $ yay -S docker4ssh

🖋 Usage

To start the docker4ssh server, simply type

$ docker4ssh start

The default port for the ssh server is 2222, if you want to change it take a look at the config file. Dynamic profile generation is enabled by default, so you can start right away. Type the following to generate a new ubuntu container and connect to it:

$ ssh -p 2222 ubuntu:latest@127.0.0.1

You will get a password prompt then where you can type in anything since by default any password is correct. If you typed in a password, the docker container gets created and the ssh connection is "redirected" to the containers' tty:

ubuntu:latest@127.0.0.1's password: 
┌───Container────────────────┐
│ Container ID: e0f3d48217da │
│ Network Mode: Host         │
│ Configurable: true         │
│ Run Level:    User         │
│ Exit After:                │
│ Keep On Exit: false        │
└──────────────Information───┘
root@e0f3d48217da:/#

For further information, visit the wiki.

⚖ License

This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0) - see the LICENSE file for more details.