alnoda-workspaces/workspaces/ubuntu-workspace/docs/getting-started.md

Getting started

Start

docker run --name space-1 -d alnoda/ubuntu-workspace

Now you can ssh into the running workspace container

docker exec -it space-1 /bin/zsh

Root user

ssh into the running workspace container as root user

docker exec -it --user=root space-1 /bin/zsh

Examples

Explore file system with Midnight Commander

mc

Launch system-monitor, process-viewer and process-manager

htop

Explore file/folder sizes

ncdu

Text editors vim, nano and mcedit are available. For example, clone git repo and edit python file with nano

git clone https://github.com/dimaba/sendmail.git
cd sendmail
nano sendmail.py 

mcedit sendmail.py 

Docker in docker

If you want to use docker, check out ubuntu-docker-workspace. It is the same, but with docker-in-docker.