18 Weird and Wonderful ways I use Docker

About this video

In this Docker-sponsored tour, the creator shows a long list of ways he uses Docker, mostly on Windows with WSL2 and images from linuxserver.io accessed in the browser via KasmVNC. He runs a full GUI browser in a container on ports 3000/3001, then Obsidian and LibreOffice by remapping host ports to avoid clashes, then Folding@home with NVIDIA GPU support for distributed research computing. He covers management and safety tooling: Docker Desktop with the Portainer extension, Dangerzone, which converts untrusted PDFs, Office files and images into safe PDFs inside sandboxes, and Docker Scout for scanning images for vulnerabilities and fixing CVEs by updating package versions. A central segment containerises individual tools — building a Dockerfile for the Fabric AI tool, adding a shell alias, and running it ephemerally — to avoid dependency conflicts. He then builds an isolated hacking lab with Kali Linux and the intentionally vulnerable DVWA app on an internal Docker network, recreates the whole lab in one Docker Compose file, and finishes by trying out other operating systems (Rocky Linux, a macOS container that drew an Apple takedown for its original author, and Raspbian) and an IT-Tools container full of small utilities.

Key takeaways

• GUI apps — a browser, Obsidian, LibreOffice — can run in linuxserver.io containers and be used through the browser via KasmVNC; remap host ports when running several at once.
• Containerising a favourite CLI tool with your own Dockerfile isolates its dependencies; a shell alias makes the containerised command feel native.
• Use Docker Scout to scan images for known vulnerabilities and remediate by bumping the flagged package/image versions, then rescanning.
• For hacking practice, put Kali Linux and a vulnerable target such as DVWA on an internal Docker network so the target is reachable only from inside the lab, and define the whole lab in Docker Compose so it builds and tears down with one command.
• Containers are a lightweight way to sample other operating systems and disposable toolboxes, but images can be outdated or vulnerable, so treat pulled images as untrusted until checked.

Episode details: published September 25, 2024 · 26:18 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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