Running GUI Applications in Docker Container

Task 02 👨🏻‍💻 

Task Description 📄

📌 GUI container on the Docker

🔅 Launch a container on docker in GUI mode 

🔅 Run any GUI software on the container

STEP - 1

To start the docker service and checks its status, use command.

"systemctl start docker"

STEP- 2

Pull the Centos Image from dockerhub, use the command.

"docker pull centos:latest

STEP- 3

To create a customized docker image

Let's say we want to run any application inside the docker container process,This process is called creating a customized docker image or docker build. For this, the best approach to create an image is “Dockerfile”.

Build the Docker image using Dockerfile

"docker built -t <container_image> .

STEP- 4

Launch the GUI Container:

We will use the docker run command to launch the container.

"docker run --env="DISPLAY" --net=host --name=firefox gui"

We specify the env=”DISPLAY” because we want the container to use the DISPLAY variable from the Host OS.

Running GUI Applications in Docker Container