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DevOps: Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes
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DevOps: Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes

by Thomas Uphill, John Arundel, Neependra Khare, Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu
March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
925 pages
18h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Accessing Firefox from a container – a Dockerfile example

We can do something more interesting through a Dockerfile, such as creating a container that just runs Firefox. This kind of use case can help run multiple browsers of different versions on the same machine, which can be very helpful in doing multibrowser testing.

Getting ready

Clone the Fedora-Dockerfiles Git repo using the following command:

$ git clone  https://github.com/nkhare/Fedora-Dockerfiles.git

Then, go to the firefox subdirectory.

$ cd Fedora-Dockerfiles/firefox
$ cat Dockerfile 
FROM fedora 
MAINTAINER scollier <emailscottcollier@gmail.com> 

# Install the appropriate software 
RUN yum -y update && yum clean all 
RUN yum -y install x11vnc \ 
firefox xorg-x11-server-Xvfb \ 
xorg-x11-twm ...
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