Docker Tor Client

It only takes a few minutes to get some sweet sweet Tor client based browsing:

# start the tor client and web proxy services
docker run -d -p 8118:8118 -p 9050:9050 rdsubhas/tor-privoxy-alpine
# wait for it to finish connecting then confirm your ip address is different
curl --proxy localhost:8118 https://icanhazip.com
# fire up your browser configured to use your new proxy service
chromium-browser --proxy-server="127.0.0.1:8118" &

If you only need a poor mans VPN w/ DNS request forwarding checkout sshuttle!

python3 -m sshuttle --dns -r myvirtualprivateserver.com 0/0

TODO

• DNSCrypt
• DNSSec

References

• docker-tor-privoxy-alpine
• sshuttle

Cross Platform ARM w/ Docker and quemu

The goal is to automate building armhf (armv7) compatible Docker images. These images can be used for dev, build, test, and deploy to ensure a consistent user experience. The most common development, cloud, and build machines currently run x86-64 architecture hardware. This complicates working on software targeted at embedded arm platforms. With modern kernels that support binfmt misc and the right combination of qemu-XXX-static binary one can run arbitrary format Docker images on arbitrary host hardware. Continue reading