Task Description 📄

📌 GUI container on the Docker

🔅 Launch a container on docker in GUI mode

🔅 Run any GUI software on the container

First install docker and start docker services.

So let’s start..

Step 1 : Pull centos image

docker pull centos:latest

Step 2 : Launch Container

docker run -it --name guicontainer --net=host --env="DISPLAY" --volume="$HOME/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority:rw" centos:latest
•- -

volume=”$HOME/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority:rw” centos:latest : to share the host’s XServer with the container by creating a volume.
•- -env=”DISPLAY” : to share the host display environment to the container.
•- -net=host : to run container with host network.

now, container is started as you can see in below..

Step 3 : Install required Packages
Now install all the required packages inside the container which is python3 and firefox in my condition with the help of yum command.
yum install firefox python3 -y

now install required libraries
pip3 install jupyter

Step 4 : Launch jupyter notebook
jupyter notebook --allow-root

as you can see jupyter notebook launches successfully!!

-Thanku

-that’s all
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