jpetazzo
dind
Shell2013–2022
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dind
Docker in Docker
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Observed mentions: 2013-10-31 11:22:45 UTC to 2022-04-27 08:00:58 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesKRKronisLV·Apr 27, 2022
> ...anything that expects to be managing docker inside docker.
Now that's an interesting problem to have!
If you trust those tools and don't have untrusted users or untrusted code, you can sometimes just mount /var/run/docker.sock and use the VM/VPS/server's Docker directly. It is actually the approach that was used by excellent tools like Portainer, though it's also really risky as well.
Alternatively, you can try to just run Docker in Docker (DinD), which is a bit more tricky and the opinions there are split about whether to do it and when to do it: https://github.com/jpetazzo/dind
Of course, someone might also jump in and suggest that Docker is architecturally problematic (i don't care much, just want my containers to run, then again; i don't deal with untrusted code or any sort of multitenancy) and you should use Podman or another se
t of technologies, which is interesting advice but would necessitate other approaches.
In short, like with most technologies: Docker and OCI container in general get more messy as your requirements become more advanced. For the problems that they do solve easily (app packaging), they are pretty good, though!