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Hello, im trying to run Ubuntu as full fledged Ubuntu, like installing ubuntu on portainer docker and use it like its own machine, but when i install ubuntu the container never starts any idea why? Not ubuntu but any os in general but if i run the command with docker it works fine

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's not what Docker is intended for

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

thats what a VM would be for if you want full install

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In Portainer, you need to set the flag interactive and terminal, which keeps the container alive, even though there is no init process defined

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Check out Kasm. It lets you soon up on demand "Workspaces" that can be isolated browser sessions to full Linux desktops. All from within a web browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hm, Docker isn't very good at this. It's good at runnign one process or a few related processes with a smaller init system like S6, but not good at running a full system with its own init and system handlers.

Lots of stuff will break, because it's expected that a lot of system-level initialization will be taking place. Docker is too opinionated when it comes to this, because it expects to be running on a system that has already been initialized.

Look to LXC or LXD. It's more appropriate for this, and while it's a container system it's more like virtualization than application containerization. It's also designed to be mutable, which is the main limitation you're running up against.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For anyone wondering why? Im trying to have a access to a terminal without anything installed on it to test some stuff abd delete it afterwards without breaking my main OS since my VPS has small amount of memory and cores so i want something simple as running docker container with for example deb, install git repo test if it works make it ready for docker, delete it afterwards and deploy it!!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Defeats the purpose of a container. Next.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wondering when i asked why not how 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You try to make a VM out of a container... Try qemu maybe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I got the answer thanks! I can just run tty for simple test and delelte i dont need lots of usages and is in portainer 1 click deploy and delete!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Try webtop from linuxserver

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

you can achieve this by creating a container with the ubuntu image and using the -it flags when running it. Make sure to also have the necessary packages installed inside the container.