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Docker Sandboxes run AI coding agents in isolated environments on your machine or on Docker-managed cloud infrastructure

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Docker Sandboxes run AI coding agents in isolated environments on your machine or on Docker-managed cloud infrastructure

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This week on Hacker News

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When I tried this a month or so ago Linux support was markedly bad, and a quick look at the GitHub issues confirmed it wasn't just me and wasn't a priority for the company. I wouldn't advertise it either. The nails in the coffin were 1) login was required 2) login was broken because they "didn't consider" it would be run in a headless environment [0] and 3) they shipped with hardcoded binary paths and root requirements [1]. I moved on and use Incus directly with small helper scripts, smolvm, or a full fat VM running desktop Claude or ChatGPT if I (or someone I mentor) really needs the full app. I'm not yoloing every new claw agent in --dangerously-destroy-my-things mode, so network restrictions are best effort, though filesystem access stays tight. Either way, docker sandboxes really didn't seem to be it, and the company didn't seem inter
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In Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
Linux is available today (Ubuntu): github.com/docker/sbx-releases. Our webpage showing only brew and winget is on us. For the people upthread who asked about on customization: templates (like snapshotting a running sandbox) and kits (YAML applied at creation like install steps, files, network and credential rules, or define a new agent outright) are the supported path now. It's early but take a look here: https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/customize/ On MCP, since credential handling was mentioned here: the sandbox sees one gateway endpoint, and OAuth tokens stay in the host credential store rather than in the VM. https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/mcp-gateway/ All this is early. We're looking at more based on feedback from users like running sandboxes in the background for long-horizon work and a lot more (including what you all rais
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ed in the thread here). Keep them coming.
In Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
About the missing native support for Pi, I opened this issue long ago in case you want to add some pressure: https://github.com/docker/sbx-releases/issues/34 To work around that limitation I came up with this https://github.com/shaftoe/sbx-template-pi So essentially you can get latest Pi/Node pulling from that image: `sbx run -t ghcr.io/shaftoe/sbx-template-pi:latest shell` Like others here I'm also saddened by the login requirement but at the moment this is the best UX I could find for running sandboxed agents, the "kit/mixin" concepts are neat and I make use of them too: https://github.com/shaftoe/sbx-template-pi#stacking-the-extr...
In Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents

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