Run a Full Linux Desktop in a Browser with the Webtop Docker Container
28#Docker #Webtop #OSContainer
Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0526.html
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What is Webtop?
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Alpine and Ubuntu based containers containing full desktop environments in officially supported flavors accessible via any modern web browser. - https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/webtop
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Installing Docker
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01. Log into the Linux host and run the following commands in a terminal window
# update software respositories
sudo apt update
# install available software updates
sudo apt upgrade -y
# install prerequisites
sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg2 software-properties-common -y
# add docker gpg key
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
# add docker apt repository
sudo apt-add-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian buster stable"
# update software repositories again
sudo apt update
# install docker
sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io -y
# add the current user to the docker group
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
# reauthenticate for the new group membership to take effect
su - $USER
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Running Webtop
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01. Continue with the following commands in terminal
# make a working directory
sudo mkdir ~/docker/webtop/config -p
# create/edit .env file
sudo nano ~/docker/webtop/.env
02. Paste the following into the .env file and change the value to something secure
PASSWORD=SomethingSecure
03. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to .env
04. Continue with the following commands in terminal
# set owner of docker directory
sudo chown "$USER":"$USER" /home/"$USER"/docker -R
# set permissions on docker directory
sudo chmod g+rwx "$HOME/docker" -R
# run the webtop container
docker run -d --name webtop --env-file /home/$USER/docker/webtop/.env -p 3000:3000 -e TZ=America/New_York -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -v /home/$USER/docker/webtop/config:/config --restart=unless-stopped linuxserver/webtop:ubuntu-xfce
05. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:3000
06. Welcome to a full Linux desktop environment accessible from a web browser
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