Desktop in a docker

Desktop virtualization as cattle not pets

Why, because controll all things.

• easier to setup than a vm
• repeatable
• ephemeral
• understandable
• builds with just a few files, maybe 100 lines in all

NOTE..

• only mate works at this moment, the other images are a WIP

additoinal software installed

• Group -> Development Tools
• Group -> LibreOffice
• Languages -> openjava-jdk
• Languages -> perl
• Languages -> python2
• IDE -> visual studio code
• Browser-> chrome
• Browser-> firefox
• iced-tea (java applet viewer for the web)
• geany
• git
• svn
• htop
• ack
• wget
• i3

To connect

RDP to localhost and connect with the user credentials listed in the build command

• Ex: user:password@127.0.0.1

Test build

make base
make mate
make run-mate

• Test user credentials are user/password

TODO

• Add LDAP
• Add user mountable directories/volumes
• setup scap profile / scan
• move user creation and customization into startup script

RDP Demo

possible desktops... info..

• Cinnamon: sudo yum install cinnamon-desktop
• LXDE / LXQt: sudo yum install lxqt-session lxqt-panel lxqt-config lxqt-powermanagement lxqt-wallet lxqt-policykit
• Several other window managers are available:
• xmonad: sudo yum install xmonad
• fluxbox: sudo yum install fluxbox
• openbox: sudo yum install openbox
• IceWM: sudo yum install icewm
• Matchbox: sudo yum install matchbox-window-manager
• WindowMaker: sudo yum install WindowMaker
• spectrwm: sudo yum install spectrwm
• fvwm: sudo yum install fvwm
• pekwm: sudo yum install pekwm
• vtwm: sudo yum install vtwm