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docker-socket-proxy
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Tecnativa / docker-socket-proxy

docker-socket-proxy

Proxy over your Docker socket to restrict which requests it accepts

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.9KGitHub stars
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What it is

Proxy over your Docker socket to restrict which requests it accepts

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-09-23 17:47:11 UTC to 2026-08-30 21:50:16 UTC.

012020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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django-ca is one way to manage a PKI including ACMEv2, OCSP, and a CRL (Certificate Revocation) list: https://github.com/mathiasertl/django-ca "How can I verify client certificates against a CRL in Golang?" mentions a bit about crypto/tls and one position on CRLs: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37058322/how-can-i-verif... CT (Certificate Transparency) is another approach to validating certs wherein x.509 cert logs are written to a consistent, available blockchain (or in e.g. google/trillian, a centralized db where one party has root and backup responsibilities also with Merkle hashes for verifying data integrity). https://certificate.transparency.dev/ https://github.com/google/trillian Does docker ever make the docker socket available over the network, over an un-firewalled port by default? Docker Swarm is one config where the dock
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er socket is configured to be available over TLS. Docker Swarm docs > "Manage swarm security with public key infrastructure (PKI)" https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/how-swarm-mode-works/pk... : > Run `docker swarm ca --rotate` to generate a new CA certificate and key. If you prefer, you can pass the --ca-cert and --external-ca flags to specify the root certificate and to use a root CA external to the swarm. Alternately, you can pass the --ca-cert and --ca-key flags to specify the exact certificate and key you would like the swarm to use. Docker ("moby") and podman v3 socket security could be improved: > From "ENH,SEC: Create additional sockets with limited permissions" https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/38879 :: > > An example use case: securing the Traefik docker driver: > > - "Docker integration: Exposing Docker socket to Traefik container is a serious security risk" https://github.com/traefik/traefik/issues/4174#issuecomment-... > > > It seems it only require (read) operations : ServerVersion, ContainerList, ContainerInspect, ServiceList, NetworkList, TaskList & Events. > > - https://github.com/liquidat/ansible-role-traefik > > > This role does exactly that: it launches two containers, a traefik one and another to securely provide limited access to the docker socket. It also provides the necessary configuration. > > - ["What could docker do to make it easier to do this correctly?"] https://github.com/Tecnativa/docker-socket-proxy/issues/13 > > - [docker-socket-proxy] Creates a HAproxy container that proxies limited access to the [docker] socket
In Threat Actors Now Target Docker via Container Escape Features

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