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Create a container image to allow SSH access
Saturday 12, February 2022   |   Post link

Overview

This blog post explains how to create a container image having an SSH server and how to SSH into it once its created.

Preparing the container

We will be using the interactive way to creating a container image. Before we start we need to select the base image on which OpenSSH Server will be installed. For this post, I am using ubuntu xenial image. All the above commands must be typed in manually.

$ docker pull ubuntu:xenial
$ docker run -it ubuntu:xenial
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get -y install openssh-server
$ useradd testuser
$ passwd testuser
$ service ssh restart
$ mkdir /home/testuser

Persisting the changes in an image

Open another terminal window and type in the following commands. The first thing to do is to find the container id:

$ docker ps

Now create the image using the command:
sudo docker commit [CONTAINER_ID] [new_image_name]
Example:

$ docker commit 5319c0b73e42 siddharthbarman/ubuntu-xenial-with-ssh:v1

Run a container off the newly created image

We'll now run a new container using the freshly created image. After this we'll SSH into it.

$ docker run -it siddharthbarman/ubuntu-xenial-with-ssh:v1
$ service ssh start #start the ssh server  	
$ hostname -I # will print the IP address of the container

If you have a container which is running non-interactively, you can 'bash' into it using the technique below and then start the SSH server and find out the container's IP:

$ docker exec -it <container-id> bash

Once we have the IP address, we can easily ssh into it:

$ ssh testuser@<container-ip-address>



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