18 Weird and Wonderful ways I use Docker

[@NetworkChuck]

Download Docker Desktop: dockr.ly/3QpUF56 Docker Scout: dockr.ly/4b21qlO Get started with Docker: dockr.ly/44siM8X 🚀 In this video, I dive deep into my Docker addiction and reveal 18 unconventional and powerful ways I use Docker every day. From running full GUI browsers in containers to setting up isolated hacking labs, these tips will transform how you think about Docker. Let's get started! 🔥🔥Join the NetworkChuck Academy!: ntck.co/NCAcademy **Sponsored by Docker

[@saadsaad-dj4pi]

Thank you !

[@ShinigamiAnger]

I don't understand why I'd want to run most of these inside docker.

[@ХщБбдДЗ]

-я!! #Csharp It is the Block right da

[@marcusjohansson668]

No links. Folding at home f.ex. Are you guaranteeing this is safe, because on THEIR website there is no mention of any docker container, so anything could be changed in that software without us knowing. Do you guarantee the code is safe here? Edit. Nvm, I found it, they link to a docker container if you click "v7 Client page" and then at the bottom there is a link to foldingathome/fah-gpu.

[@robertrobbins1367]

Chuck! Would love to see if you have a dash board set up to monitor all your containers ( home page etc.. ) If so do a video ! I will hack youtube on that one as well!

[@Mikey-Plays-Bass]

When I first started watching you, I’d been out of IT for about 10 years. Within the last 3 years, I’ve gone from knowing only VMware from 15 years ago, to hosting my own proxmox VE, running docker, Nextcloud, pihole-unbound recursive DNS and a web server. I did this all while recovering from PTSD, as an outlet. I am now on my way to finishing blue team fundamentals in order to get into cybersecurity. Thank you Chuck… you’ve pulled me from my darkest place to feeling like the old me. ❤

[@Drippy_Jesus]

Hell yeah brother!! 💪💪

[@carter-the-coder]

You should do a tutorial on Prometheus and Grafana, I've been running it with Docker for about a month, and its great.

[@anthonyrussano]

i agree... grafana stack running in docker for monitoring proxmox vms would be cool

[@slightlytoolate]

this would be so sick!

[@malcolmTX]

Yes please

[@呀咧呀咧]

there're many out there already.

[@TheBroadcastEngineer]

Yes! But also how to add snmp to it. I’ve been trying to get it to work and have been running into one thing after another.

[@no1unorightnow]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3">0:03</a> "I'm gonna show you everything I use Docker for." <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="193">3:13</a> "Some of these apps I don't use everyday. Or ever.

[@deanmcdonald8787]

I think its time he retires and uses AI to do these videos. AI would have done a better job. What a mess. Kudos anyway.

[@mhavock]

Also, docker is not fully opensource in the way people think, their paid licensing and "Community Edition" seems shady.

[@Sarveshbhagat]

bruh - - - -- - - -- - -- - - - - -- -

[@MeGigantorzMon]

@@deanmcdonald8787 No God No!

[@Kevin-oj2uo]

He is a mess . ​@@deanmcdonald8787

[@adamk.7177]

I already have a smart coffee maker. I'm smart, and I make coffee. I just use the same Planetary Design french press I've had for 10 years. The aluminum walled ones are practically indestructable, just don't put them in the dishwasher.

[@SilverSeleucid]

a "smart" coffee maker sounds like one of the dumbest things ive ever seen

[@beentheredonethatunfortunately]

I have a smart coffee maker as well. She sometimes stacks the dishwasher as well. I think I might duck now.

[@123luk]

@@beentheredonethatunfortunately and her name aint gina

[@svisagie]

@@beentheredonethatunfortunately I always thought that was a fairy doing that 🙂

[@Papasot]

Can we not have apps for every single electrical appliance we own?

[@inkbunnybunny]

NO!!!!!!!!!!… you'll evn need a wall subscription for the structural walls of your house.

[@Papasot]

@@inkbunnybunny hope my card doesn’t decline

[@parheliaa]

Yeah, soon we will have smart condoms (great use for IPv6!)...

[@SilverSeleucid]

modern society is falling apart

[@VoiceMemosFTW]

take your meds

[@INTJames]

I like how podman is rootless, daemonless, compatible with docker, supports the kubernetes pod concept, and is integrated with systemd though

[@DavidCastillaGil]

I tried so hard, to make podman work for me. Couldn't really just switch one for the other as I was sort of envisioning. Are you able to run every image with it, even those using root internally? Do you have a single standard user that you run pods with? How do you manage access to shared volumes for other users, like your own?

[@nottoolive]

Docker sponsor is crazy. Keep doing you man

[@reyariass]

Nooooo I miss the old informational Chuck! Who used to just show information about similar services/products instead of now with videos solely focused on reviewing products that he was paid to review (which gives a biased review since he was paid) Now it might still contain information if people used those products but I’d prefer having information on other similar products/services and shown the pros/cons between each

[@SIMULATAN]

​@@reyariasswait till you see the Shorts, it's an ad infested mess

[@chadandcalebsadventures4950]

@@reyariass hit the nail right on the head, we want the ol' network chuck back not this phony sellout network chuck (joke, your only slightly phony from the bias because of the paid sponsorship and we all still love you only now with a tinge of disappointment)

[@superslash7254]

@@chadandcalebsadventures4950 No it's pretty much all phony. His earlier videos tried to teach people to genuinely understand the underlying technology and reasoning behind things. The newer videos are actively doing the opposite and fostering a blind cargo-cult use of sponsored products.

[@simonromanski401]

I loved the flow of this video. Made me chuckle here and there and picked up a couple good images to try out. I'm half a century old and I had the exact same reaction when docker came into my life !

[@marcg1043]

Again a fabulous video!!! Leaning so much in such a short period of time. You are by far the best Tech teacher online...

[@Nebulosation]

Oh, yeah. I use docker-compose all the time. It's a must-have for any microservice architecture! I love it!

[@ironic_razor]

I keep being amazed on how you give such great intros into tech! You are my go to resource when I want to dive into a topic! Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into it!

[@TRGibson]

I love that you love obsidian! I've never stumbled upon someone else that uses it

[@markg5891]

Question regarding that internal network. How i usually organize my containers is: - A new network (default, not internal) - All containers are in that network - Only one container exposes port (80 and 443) I thought hat was a safe and recommended approach. So now i'm curious if i instead should be using the internal flag for my network?

[@DavidCastillaGil]

Your approach is good if you're always accesing your services through that reverse proxy with published ports, looks quite safe to me. I do a similar thing but even deeper, each of my compose projects gets its own default network for internal traffic, and the one container that's supposed to be accessed is also added to the reverse proxy's network. That way my dbs are only accesible from their specific services, but I feel it's pretty overkill. The internal network flag means the network is not connected to the host's interface like default networks which are bridges. In your case it doesnt make a difference since you are not exposing any ports on your services anyway

[@markg5891]

@@DavidCastillaGil Thank you for confirming! I wasn't looking forward to restructuring it so I'm happy with the confirmation 😁👍

[@sploders1019]

Fun fact: you actually don’t need docker for fabric unless you really want the isolation for security. Go compiles to a static binary that doesn’t have any dependencies (unless you specifically link them in). Fabric provides downloads on their releases page, or you could use Docker to build it and copy it out

[@dirk-janfaber]

Nice video. I am using Docker almost daily for cross-compiling. Most easy way to do it, without installing all of the building tools directly on your machine.

[@waychison]

When you were running docker on the start, you were running it directly in your WSL2 instance. When you added docker-desktop to Windows, it setup a new WSL2 instance for docker itself, and injected a docker command into your WSL2 instance that talks to the instance in the new WSL2 instance. If you turn off the WSL2 integration, the original docker installation will be visible again.

[@kflangan]

I ran docker for several years at home, first on a Raspberry Pi, then a laptop acting as a home server, then I went to a desktop as my "server", but changed from Docker to Podman. the differences are not huge, but I wanted to get to more open standards. I created shell scripts to While I'm not building my own containers, I do have 7 containers running, doing various things.

[@Johnello1]

I simply love you man km gonna install docker now and have some fun even though i dont really need it

[@lKrauzer]

Just a tip on minute <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="780">13:00</a>: instead of using the absolute path, you can use this instead "$(pwd):/root" and it'll understand that the volumn needs to be mounted on your current directory, maybe rename it to fabric, so "$(pwd):/fabric" or /app, idk

[@jaehdaycon7588]

Cheers m8. 1. We're learning Docker because of You. A comment was made, that we weren't smart enough to understand it. We're out to prove them wrong and it's you who's giving us the motivation to give it a try. 2. YOU FREAKING ROCK ALL the Way, and we Appreciate You. A LOT!! Mad Philadelphia Brotherly Love, by way of The North of England. J aka Brother Soul #labr #loveabrotherradio PS Say hello to your Brother. That video with you two was funny as hell.

[@willcalltickets]

Loved the flow of your vid! Especially like how you have links to other vids for deeper dives. I lost count too!

[@tiriyoncontinuum9519]

for example 1, I forward the browser container through x11 on linux. Can also be done on windows with xming.

[@tjairicciardi9747]

AMAZING VIDEO !! Learned more about docker in 20 minutes than the last year !!!

[@VaibhavShewale]

some of the images shown were just amazing! i never used docker gui but i think i will give it a try

[@Randy-oz8vl]

I'm use Docker Swarm for production,, and it's absolutely amazing!!

[@frankthetechtank]

This was awesome, I added a bunch of them to my Heimdall.

[@fatherfoxstrongpaw8968]

dude, i love anything long format and your vids are a blast. But whether or not you want to run long vids or just tease us, you do you. i always appreciate quality over quantity and you rock the box. stay awesome!

[@adrianrodriguez1999]

Man, thanks for all the information you shared is very helpful and inspiring. I identify myself when you almost jump out the screen because of the white light on the screen then you change it to the dark mode which is way more comfortable anyway keep up the good content

[@ZiroGraphics]

That John Hammond joke was incredible, I spat out my coffee!

[@KhufuhK]

The stabilizers in your keyboard are sounding much better. Did you make a custom board?

[@roadkill11000]

Dude, there is not enough coffee for me to be able to keep up with you! Get that man a decaf!

[@fallenacornestate]

I love docker containers and I use unraid for one of my home servers. Unraid natively uses docker containers to isolate things.

[@MrJmannikko]

I literally busted out laughing at the safe "John Hammond" picture! <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="611">10:11</a>

[@miggies8140]

This man pumps out content the quality of channels sized 20 mil +.

[@Arhonnys]

Hi, I feel like this video is the answer to all my questions from the last stream, thank you very much. PD: Thanks for changing the thumbnail, the first one was cursed

[@ericdoingaiagain]

😮 that was me in the backseat...I feel so pumped up to container stuff now! Thanks Chuck!

[@y2k-page]

Yo I love your videos, and I want to learn javaScript. My brother watches your python series and I love how interactive you are with the concept, and it’s hard to find a good javaScript tutorial. Can you do a JavaScript series I would appreciate it so much! Keep it up!

[@GSon-bj7mp]

Hi, I wonder if you could share your terminal config (bash/zsh & DOS/powershell) with THEME. It looks so good!!

[@VonGrossiAngelo]

Which font do you use?

[@DavidCastillaGil]

Have a look at OhMyZsh (for linux) or OhMyPoSh (for Windows). Not sure if that's what he's using but it achieves the same customizations

[@nickxyz001]

Can you do a video on your setup? Would like to know what you’re using when you write on screen. Thanks

[@mohdadeeb8997]

Love your videos chuck ♥

[@KamilKielich-kz6dm]

Hey Chuck! Do you use Go(Golang)? Maybe you could do a short course in this language? Especially in the context of computer networks and process automation in the DevOps style and using this language. A film like this from you would be pure fun and a feast for my sympathy for IT education. After all, who else is able to teach and show something to a person who wants to develop with such great enthusiasm.

[@sapperjaeger]

YES ... this style was MEGA!

[@dante2000xx]

great video, you help me to find some tools that i didnt know that i needed.

[@jams1077]

You can also build networking labs with full Cisco/Juniper/Arista/etc OSes using docker and containerlabs

[@warpcode]

If you're accessing containers on the same network like in your dvwa example, just use the container name instead of the IP. The DNS is setup automatically

[@mickeyp1291]

your energy is amazing

[@billv7931]

Always great content! Thanks Chuck!

[@ShortKicks7733]

Amazing video Thanks! I love these kinds of videos!

[@TechTeller17]

I find it interesting that the first few docker use cases are just so you can run things in a Linux environment. Especially needing VNC to get a GUI. If you are just on Linux in the first place you can directly access your GPU and GUI!

[@BloodyEpicG4m3rZ]

I also have a docker addiction... I am currently sitting at 58 containers on 4 hosts, in 2 countries. I know, rookie numbers :D I'm always finding new stuff to spin up. I actually used to run the full Kasm solution and had the Rocky, Kali and Brave containers under it. I never managed to get the android stuff to work though, that would be cool.... I think I just found my next project, android app containers would be MINT

[@free-palestine-w2x]

Creative as always Chuck, Thanks

[@brunocosta1041]

Are you familiar with podman instead of docker? My supervisor says podman is safer because its rootless

[@tyler.g.]

If Podman sponsors him then he will make a video on it.

[@2dorkstv]

I've been using podman for years now. Not having a daemon running is great as well. Docker definitely nailed the marketing early on so I understand why people navigate to it first. But podman is definitely a great tool and equally useful for everything you see here. It's largely a drop-in replacement with the same commands.

[@ItsDestroy]

We moved from docker to podman recently. Podman is not a complete replacement for Docker. One example is if you use something like the Docker plugin for Jenkins, it doesn't work. Another thing is limited feature completeness for compose files. You also often be reading docs geared towards Docker rather than Podman when integrating new items with Podman

[@conneyk]

You also can run docker rootless by using a rootless socket

[@MadDawg010]

I tried to use podman a little while ago, but I gave up after failing to figure out how to get compose to work, but I think it may be time for me revisit this again.

[@DavidMadeira29]

I still don't know how they could keep that many applications open and working on a single machine without being connecting to a mule network. Namastè.

[@Georgestvr]

just drink a cup of coffee

[@DavidCastillaGil]

You would be surprised how many of these you can run on a tiny raspberry pi. I have most of my important homelab tools running on one, around 20 containers

[@i_Kruti]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="575">9:35</a> love to hear that line again.....

[@mariuspretorius1493]

Great content! Please do a video on Traefik and Docker Swarm

[@mysticknight487]

Just gonna say do it with podman for more isolation and trivy.

[@nocturne_adagio]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="208">3:28</a> the level of isolation provided by a VM compared to docker is not even remotely comparable. Containers should never be used where security is important.

[@hvsniddin]

Can you explain?

[@nocturne_adagio]

@hvsniddin To oversimplify, VMs have complete low level isolation, typically enforced by the CPU, with their own set of resources. With a container, the isolation is enforced by a software feature called a cgroup namespace. A process in a container is just running on the host, with access to the hosts kernel, just when it tries to e.g. query running processes, it gets returned the list of those running in its own namespace. Practically, this means whenever a new kernel vulnerability is found (not that uncommon) a container can use it to attack the host and potentially break out, whereas VM escapes are much less common, and typically effect virtual peripherals such as virtual USB devices that connect the vm and host, rather than the core virtulisation itself.

[@beSafeSafeEverywhere]

So much Coffey, it's like this fun video run on x2 speed. You are the dude 😎

[@IJH-Music]

VikingCoder is my favourite! TY Chuck Norris of the Viking Age!

[@FelixGeb]

I like the level of entertainment here :D using docker for a lot of things with traefik revers proxy its just perfect

[@jonp9511]

One Network Chuck a Day to keep the Burnout away. Thanks Chuck.

[@Anyoneonyoutubeoffical]

Love this video by far one of the best

[@mountain7105]

This is a great list thank you Chuck. Definitely gonna have to check out Dangerzone and IT Tools, I hope there's a Parrott OS container

[@StuartLoria]

How can I get addicted to Docker?, we need a series of videos about this, docker ideas.

[@okoeroo]

Crazy, funny, useful. Thanks. Quite the inspiration

[@SkyBlade002]

Fast follow Docker/containers with a feature on Bazzite, Universal Blue, and the immutable/atomic OSes Fedora and other Linux distros are creating. They too are built on container methodology. OOTB support for nearly all AAA games as well!

[@bobhette915]

Thanks for all the tricks. U the boss Chuck!

[@Ic37r011]

This is a phenomenal video.

[@bbl_drizzzzy]

Network Chuck not mentioning building networking labs with Containerlab is wild

[@hallcrash]

When you enable wsl integration it changes the container location environment variable. And I don't think it changes it back when it's deselected. You either have to reinstall wsl or update the container location environment variable.

[@RobFahndrich1]

Chuck, Thanks for the informative and entertaining videos. I am intrigued by Docker in WSL2 on my Windows 11 PC. So far I have some Docker containers running and all is good until I close the Ubuntu terminal window. I have spent lots of time googling but cannot find a solution to this. Perhaps you can share with us how do you get Docker to run and all the containers to run and stay running when the WSL terminal is not open? Thanks!

[@vexy1987]

OH FFS! Watching your videos and caving into subliminal messaging to go make a god damn coffee at 10.30pm... but docker is calling.

[@ianarsenault]

This is really cool, I've been getting into LXC containers inside or ProxMox, thinking of running Docker on either Ubuntu or Debian to try some of this.

[@PatricioOnCode]

Yessss! Love Docker! It just doesn't receive the love it deserves! Hey and what do you use to jot "on the screen"?

[@ROMVN95]

Loved the video, thank you uncle chuck almost norris :)

[@00Jimmy00]

nice video, thnx Chuck :D

[@84mylo]

you can run firefox i WSL2 just by installing in from apt and running it. Works fine for me.

[@chloepebbles313]

Hi, Chuck love your videos, they are so easy to understand, A lot of people now run crypto nodes on VPS Cloud servers but there is a way to run more than 1 node on each VPS Cloud server but there are no videos that explain the way you do out there and the few videos out there that do show you are so old and in a lot of cases are irrelevant, Im sure if you did a video, it would be a big hit and help so many people out, thanks.

[@StarFox1988]

the cold open of "I Think I have a Docker addiction" was gold

[@t0mcat-]

I liked your video because you debugged in it like a real man; you didn’t hide anything.

[@vikaspoddar001]

Please, do a deep dive on podman

[@sapperjaeger]

possibly one your coolest videos

[@ThatRandomDude914]

We need the WSL theme now

[@MonkeyGamer6969]

Yo bro, what webcam do you use? 2160p resolution for a webcam is insane, I’ve gotta know the name.

[@id104335409]

So cool. I have just 1 question. Why?

[@ayuergens]

Always love the passion and enthusiasm!!! thanks again :)

[@badtrapify]

Wait until you discover the full beauty of podman

[@dolbrechts1980]

Podman is better they say but harder to learn using?

[@呀咧呀咧]

buggyyyyy stuff

[@jackysolanki6848]

Awesome Video 🔥🔥

[@gizlas]

You don't need the IP Address within the docker networks. Docker-Compose Service name becomes the DNS Address :)

[@DaNiel-lz2gx]

You don’t need to install Go (or C++ or Rust…) to run a program in these languages. They are truly compiled ahead of time. They might need shared libraries, but no installed runtime, aka interpreter, aka JVM.

[@MrKowabunga92]

Literally every cool tool and cybersecurity platform: *Exists* People needing education: *Exists* Chuck: "Check this out..."

[@erin1569]

Your voice sounds so peaceful

[@matthewheys6611]

The cool kids now use docker compose not docker-compose. Also if building a GO app, I would use a multipart build Dockerfile and have the final image have the base layer as Empty. Lots of GO apps don't need any additional OS files inside a container and can just work in the Empty base.

[@tylerhall7361]

How were you running ubuntu beside the powershell? Were you doing all of this off of a windows OS? What is that set up? Have always loved your content brother!! You are literally the reason i got into coding and networking and am going for a degree. Love being a supporter of your channel. Great content.

[@Mayur7Garg]

It is a combination of Windows Terminal and WSL 2. Windows terminal can be installed from the Windows Store.

[@DavidCastillaGil]

When you install WSL2 you esentially turn your standard Windows OS into a hypervisor and you can then run Windows and Linux together as virtual machines. It's much better integrated than using other tools like VirtualBox, specially on the CLI, but it also allows to run Docker on Windows. But if you're trying to learn I'd recommend you use a machine that you are not afraid of misconfiguring.

[@tylerhall7361]

@@DavidCastillaGil what about the gui he was using? Is that a package download or is the gui / interface download setup? Pretty cool

[@pylotlight]

@@tylerhall7361 he just told you?

[@DavidCastillaGil]

@@tylerhall7361 which GUI do you mean? Install WSL2 (and enable virtualization on your BIOS/UEFI), Windows Terminal, OhMyPoSh, Docker for Windows... And I think that was it to get the setup. The first two you get from the Windows Store, the last two from their official websites and follow instructions. Should be fairly easy.

[@emreyavuz4706]

Great content for use cases of Docker thanks Chuck. Could you consider having a video to create a virtual network that you can play with different vendors (Cisco, Juniper, etc) and put clients to the edges and flow real traffic like a real world simulation in terms of telco?

[@dragonmaster1500]

Hey Chuck, thanks for the video! I've had some interest in learning about Docker for a while now, I've only used it in the past for deploying Open Drone Maps, but aside from that I haven't really had the opportunity to experiment with it. Just out of curiosity, would you suggest installing Docker on the computer's main C: drive, or on a separate M.2 SSD that's installed on the motherboard? I normally run Windows because of GIS application compatibility, but I'm interested in learning how to use Docker for building small programs, pipelines and workflows that can be easily shared, not to mention I'm actually really interested in how you were running a Linux Distro from a docker container. Thing is, I'm not sure if I want to run it off my main boot drive because I'm not sure how much extra storage that it's going to require to run a lot of those programs that can be installed in containers. Hence, my interest in installing it on a different internal storage drive. But will installing it on a seperate internal SSD have a noticeable performance impact?

[@Avenger0100]

What that nice clucky keyboard you have there? :)

[@tiriyoncontinuum9519]

for running obsidian in a container that could actually be a very good solution at work, where I already have my personal container image that I carry around between servers.

[@kota5437]

Thanks for the video.