How to SSH into Docker

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I d like to create the following infrastructure flow     How can that be achieved using Docker

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Firstly you need to install a SSH server in the images you wish to ssh-into. You can use a base image for all your container with the ssh server installed. Then you only have to run each container mapping the ssh port (default 22) to one to the host's ports (Remote Server in your image), using -p <hostPort>:<containerPort>. i.e:

docker run -p 52022:22 container1 
docker run -p 53022:22 container2

Then, if ports 52022 and 53022 of host's are accessible from outside, you can directly ssh to the containers using the ip of the host (Remote Server) specifying the port in ssh with -p <port>. I.e.:

ssh -p 52022 myuser@RemoteServer --> SSH to container1

ssh -p 53022 myuser@RemoteServer --> SSH to container2

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I guess it is possible  You just need to install a SSH server in each container and expose a port on the host  The main annoyance would be maintaining remembering the mapping of port to container   However  I have to question why you d want to do this  SSH ng into containers should be rare enough that it s not a hassle to ssh to the host then use docker exec to get into the container

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It is a short way but not permanent first create a container docker run        -p 22022 2222        port 22022  on your host machine will map on 2222  we change the ssh port on container later   then on your container executing the following commands apt update  amp  amp  apt install  openssh-server   install ssh server passwd  change root password  in file  etc ssh sshd config change these   uncomment Port and change it to 2222 Port 2222  uncomment PermitRootLogin to PermitRootLogin yes  and finally restart ssh server  etc init d ssh start  you can login to your container now ssh -p 2022 root HostIP  Remember    if you restart the container you need to restart ssh server again

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These files will successfully open sshd and run service so you can ssh in locally   you are using cyberduck aren t you    Dockerfile      FROM swiftdocker swift MAINTAINER Nobody  RUN apt-get update  amp  amp  apt-get -y install openssh-server supervisor RUN mkdir  var run sshd RUN echo  root password    chpasswd RUN sed -i  s PermitRootLogin without-password PermitRootLogin yes    etc ssh sshd config    SSH login fix  Otherwise user is kicked off after login RUN sed  s session s required s pam loginuid so session optional pam loginuid so g  -i  etc pam d sshd  ENV NOTVISIBLE  in users profile  RUN echo  export VISIBLE now   gt  gt   etc profile  COPY supervisord conf  etc supervisor conf d supervisord conf  EXPOSE 22 CMD    usr bin supervisord     supervisord conf   supervisord  nodaemon true   program sshd  command  usr sbin sshd -D   to build   run start daemon   jump into shell   docker build -t swift3-ssh     docker run -p 2222 22 -i -t swift3-ssh docker ps   find container id docker exec -i -t  lt containerid gt   bin bash

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Create docker image with openssh-server preinstalled   Dockerfile  FROM ubuntu 16 04  RUN apt-get update  amp  amp  apt-get install -y openssh-server RUN mkdir  var run sshd RUN echo  root screencast    chpasswd RUN sed -i  s PermitRootLogin prohibit-password PermitRootLogin yes    etc ssh sshd config    SSH login fix  Otherwise user is kicked off after login RUN sed  s session s required s pam loginuid so session optional pam loginuid so g  -i  etc pam d sshd  ENV NOTVISIBLE  in users profile  RUN echo  export VISIBLE now   gt  gt   etc profile  EXPOSE 22 CMD    usr sbin sshd    -D     Build the image using     docker build -t eg sshd     Run a test sshd container     docker run -d -P --name test sshd eg sshd   docker port test sshd 22  0 0 0 0 49154   Ssh to your container     ssh root 192 168 1 2 -p 49154   The password is   screencast    root f38c87f2a42d      Source  https   docs docker com engine examples running ssh service  build-an-eg sshd-image

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Notice  this answer promotes a tool I ve written   The selected answer here suggests to install an SSH server into every image  Conceptually this is not the right approach  https   docs docker com articles dockerfile best-practices     I ve created a containerized SSH server that you can  stick  to any running container  This way you can create compositions with every container  The only requirement is that the container has bash   The following example would start an SSH server exposed on port 2222 of the local machine     docker run -d -p 2222 22     -v  var run docker sock  var run docker sock     -e CONTAINER my-container -e AUTH MECHANISM noAuth     jeroenpeeters docker-ssh    ssh -p 2222 localhost   For more pointers and documentation see  https   github com jeroenpeeters docker-ssh     Not only does this defeat the idea of one process per container  it is also a cumbersome approach when using images from the Docker Hub since they often don t  and shouldn t  contain an SSH server

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