GUI container on the Docker

Siddhant Sharma
Jun 1, 2021

πŸ“Œ GUI container on the Docker

πŸ”… Launch a container on docker in GUI mode

πŸ”… Run any GUI software on the container

  • First of all we have to create workspace
mkdir Docker-GUI
  • Now we have to go inside the workspace and than create a file name it Dockerfile
vim Dockerfile
  • Now write the following code (given in screenshot) in Dockerfile
  • Now we have to build an image for this we have to use following command
docker build -t <image name> .
  • Now we can check our build image by using
docker images
  • Now we have to launch GUI application on Docker container for that we have to use
docker run -it --env="DISPLAY" --net=host --name <Application Name what you want to give> <name of image that we create>
  • Now in the end Our application is launched successfully

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