jonoh/socks repository overview

⁠socks

SOCKS proxy server (using Dante⁠).

There's very little to this container. It just runs Dante with a trivial configuration file.

⁠Why?

It's sometimes useful to configure network traffic at an application level. For example, individual applications in other containers (or on the host) could send traffic through this container's network.

⁠Usage

If you want to you can expose a port (1080) so that other systems can access the service. Be careful with this, there's no authentication configured by default. Otherwise if you attach this container to a docker network then other services will be able to access the service by its container name, at port 1080.

⁠Tags

Tags are created based on the Dante version, or you can use latest. Updates are created when new versions of the upstream image (Alpine) are released.

⁠Ports

Pass ports for docker-compose in ports or to docker run with -p <host_port>:<container_port>.

⁠Environment Variables

Pass values for docker-compose in environment or to docker run with -e "<VAR_NAME>:<value>". These values will only take effect if you haven't mounted your own sockd.conf.

⁠Mounts

There are no volumes defined, but if you want to you can override the default Dante configuration by mounting your own to /etc/sockd.conf.

⁠Motivation

There are other very similar images available, but I wanted one that was multi-architecture and frequently updated.