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# Docker Socket Proxy
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## What?
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This is a security-enhaced proxy for the Docker Socket.
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## Why?
Giving access to your Docker socket could mean giving root access to your host,
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or even to your whole swarm, but some services require hooking into that socket
to react to events, etc. Using this proxy lets you block anything you consider
those services should not do.
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## How?
We use the official [Alpine][]-based [HAProxy][] image with a small
configuration file.
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It blocks access to the Docker socket API according to the environment
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variables you set. It returns a `HTTP 403 Forbidden` status for those dangerous
requests that should never happen.
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## Security recommendations
- Never expose this container's port to a public network. Only to a Docker
networks where only reside the proxy itself and the service that uses it.
- Revoke access to any API section that you consider your service should not
need.
- This image does not include TLS support, just plain HTTP proxy to the host
Docker Unix socket (which is not TLS protected even if you configured your
host for TLS protection). This is by design because you are supposed to
restrict access to it through Docker's built-in firewall.
- [Read the docs ](#suppported-api-versions ) for the API version you are using,
and **know what you are doing** .
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## Usage
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1. Run the API proxy:
$ docker container run \
-d --privileged \
--name dockerproxy \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
-p 127.0.0.1:2375:2375 \
tecnativa/docker-socket-proxy
2. Connect your local docker client to that socket:
$ export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://localhost
3. You can see the docker version:
$ docker version
Client:
Version: 17.03.1-ce
API version: 1.27
Go version: go1.7.5
Git commit: c6d412e
Built: Mon Mar 27 17:14:43 2017
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Server:
Version: 17.03.1-ce
API version: 1.27 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.7.5
Git commit: c6d412e
Built: Mon Mar 27 17:14:43 2017
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false
4. You cannot see running containers:
$ docker container ls
Error response from daemon: < html > < body > < h1 > 403 Forbidden< / h1 >
Request forbidden by administrative rules.
< / body > < / html >
The same will happen to any containers that use this proxy's `2375` port to
access the Docker socket API.
## Grant or revoke access to certain API sections
You grant and revoke access to certain features of the Docker API through
environment variables.
Normally the variables match the URL prefix (i.e. `AUTH` blocks access to
`/auth/*` parts of the API, etc.).
Possible values for these variables:
- `0` to **revoke** access.
- `1` to **grant** access.
### Access granted by default
These API sections are mostly harmless and almost required for any service that
uses the API, so they are granted by default.
- `EVENTS`
- `PING`
- `VERSION`
### Access revoked by default
#### Security-critical
These API sections are considered security-critical, and thus access is revoked
by default. Maximum caution when enabling these.
- `AUTH`
- `SECRETS`
- `POST` : When disabled, only `GET` and `HEAD` operations are allowed, meaning
any section of the API is read-only.
#### Not always needed
You will possibly need to grant access to some of these API sections, which are
not so extremely critical but can expose some information that your service
does not need.
- `BUILD`
- `COMMIT`
- `CONTAINERS`
- `EXEC`
- `IMAGES`
- `INFO`
- `NETWORKS`
- `NODES`
- `PLUGINS`
- `SERVICES`
- `SWARM`
- `SYSTEM`
- `TASKS`
- `VOLUMES`
## Supported API versions
- [1.27 ](https://docs.docker.com/engine/api/v1.27/ )
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## Feedback
Please send any feedback (issues, questions) to the [issue tracker][].
[Alpine]: https://alpinelinux.org/
[HAProxy]: http://www.haproxy.org/
[issue tracker]: https://github.com/Tecnativa/docker-socket-proxy/issues
