Docker Socket Proxy

Overview

Proxy over your Docker socket to restrict which requests it accepts Proxy over your Docker socket to restrict which requests it accepts - Tecnativa/docker-socket-proxy The project has 2K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under Apache-2.0.

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

1. Run the API proxy (--privileged flag is required here because it connects with the docker socket, which is a privileged connection in some SELinux/AppArmor contexts and would get locked otherwise):

   $ docker container run
   -d —privileged
   —name dockerproxy
   -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
   -p 127.0.0.1:2375:2375
   tecnativa/docker-socket-proxy

2. Connect your local docker client to that socket:

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

docker, rest api.

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