Add terminal acess to docker containers from within docker GUI page.

[soana]

per this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=37211.0

 

[BRiT]

Do you mean the ability to browse the filesystems inside the docker images?

[soana]

Yes.

I was playing around with a docker that will backup my sql database.

With "docker exec -it <container name> bash" I managed to get inside the container and change some parameters without the need to rebuild.

 

 

[NAS]

I am in two minds about this.

 

Yes I agree it would be useful but this is not how docker is supposed to be used. Theres a reason it took a dozen versions of docker for this to be added, your only supposed to enter the shell of a docker in the rarest of debugging instances.

 

My worry is that because this new tool works so well people will start using it like SSH into a VM when fundamentally your not supposed to i.e. we would be encouraging using docker the wrong way.

 

 

[itimpi]

It also raises the question of how this would be done via the GUI.  A web browser is not really designed to be run as if it were a telnet session (has any one come across such a capability?).

[NAS]

It might be worth hearing what people thoughts on why this would be used and take it from there.

[JonathanM]

It also raises the question of how this would be done via the GUI.  A web browser is not really designed to be run as if it were a telnet session (has any one come across such a capability?).

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=28670.0

[itimpi]

Not seen that before - I need to play with it.

 

If that can be made to work well then it would be good to have it as an option on the Tools tab to avoid the need to. Use a telnet client in many scenarios.

[NAS]

But should we make it easier for all users to delve into the guts of a container is the question.

 

At this point I see more pitfalls than advantages?

[jonp]

But should we make it easier for all users to delve into the guts of a container is the question.

 

At this point I see more pitfalls than advantages?

 

I have to agree with NAS here.  I realize that more advanced users would like this, but the truth is that more advanced users should be comfortable enough to login to their system using SSH and docker exec to gain access to the container itself.  If someone really wants this bad enough in the webGui though, there is no reason someone couldn't make a Plugin that adds this capability.  I just don't see us doing this as "built-in" functionality as there are "more pitfalls than advantages," as NAS puts it.