docker-socket-proxy VS Watch

Compare docker-socket-proxy vs Watch and see what are their differences.

docker-socket-proxy

Proxy over your Docker socket to restrict which requests it accepts (by Tecnativa)

Watch

Watches for changes in a directory tree and reruns a command in an acme win or just on the terminal. (by weaveworks)
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docker-socket-proxy Watch
23 2
1,200 54
6.8% -
5.3 0.0
11 days ago over 1 year ago
Python Go
Apache License 2.0 -
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docker-socket-proxy

Posts with mentions or reviews of docker-socket-proxy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-05.
  • Security for your Homeserver
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 May 2023
    I just found this the other day. You might be interested I haven't done myself yet https://github.com/Tecnativa/docker-socket-proxy
  • Gitea 1.19.0 released - now with support for Actions
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 20 Mar 2023
    I think you could provide access to the socket using a "docker-socket-proxy" container. It allows other containers to access the docker socket, you can even control which actions are allowed and which are not. You can use a bridge network for the communication to the socket-proxy container, so the socket-proxy container does not need to map/expose any ports. In the other container you need to set the "DOCKER_HOST" env variable accordingly, e.g. "DOCKER_HOST=tcp://mydockersockerproxycontainer:2375". https://github.com/Tecnativa/docker-socket-proxy
  • Unraid Remotely Access Docker Daemon
    1 project | /r/unRAID | 15 Feb 2023
    I use the container docker socket proxy
  • Why does next cloud docker installation require access to /var/run/docker.sock (albeit read-only)? Is there a way to circumvent that?
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 15 Jan 2023
  • Docker socket security
    1 project | /r/docker | 10 Jan 2023
    There are Docker socket proxys (like docker-socket-proxy 😉) that are made exactly for this. You can pass only read access to the socket and even restrict what resources can be read.
  • VM with multiple staging hosts GitLab CI?
    1 project | /r/gitlab | 6 Dec 2022
    So far I have Traefik set up and tested (along with some security lockdowns https://github.com/Tecnativa/docker-socket-proxy). This is working well: I can manually create containers, get a cert, dynamic hostnames, etc.
  • Is there any docker dashboard that auto detect the services ?
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 8 Sep 2022
    May be not necessarily: https://github.com/Tecnativa/docker-socket-proxy
  • [How-to] Securing access to your `docker.sock` file.
    1 project | /r/unRAID | 20 Feb 2022
    Many of you might already be familiar with Tecnativa's docker-socket-proxy which says:
  • Basic Traefik configuration tutorial
    4 projects | dev.to | 12 Feb 2022
    version: "3.7" services: traefik: image: traefik:v2.6 command: # Entrypoints configuration - --entrypoints.web.address=:80 # Docker provider configuration - --providers.docker=true # Makes sure that services have to explicitly direct Traefik to expose them - --providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false # Use the secure docker socket proxy - --providers.docker.endpoint=tcp://socket_proxy:2375 # Default docker network to use for connections to all containers - --providers.docker.network=traefik_public # Logging levels are DEBUG, PANIC, FATAL, ERROR, WARN, and INFO. - --log.level=info ports: - 80:80 networks: - traefik_public - socket_proxy restart: unless-stopped depends_on: - socket_proxy # https://github.com/traefik/whoami whoami: image: traefik/whoami:v1.7.1 labels: # Explicitly instruct Traefik to expose this service - traefik.enable=true # Router configuration ## Listen to the `web` entrypoint - traefik.http.routers.whoami_route.entrypoints=web ## Rule based on the Host of the request - traefik.http.routers.whoami_route.rule=Host(`whoami.karvounis.tutorial`) - traefik.http.routers.whoami_route.service=whoami_service # Service configuration ## 80 is the port that the whoami container is listening to - traefik.http.services.whoami_service.loadbalancer.server.port=80 networks: - traefik_public # https://github.com/Tecnativa/docker-socket-proxy # Security-enhanced proxy for the Docker Socket socket_proxy: image: tecnativa/docker-socket-proxy:latest restart: unless-stopped environment: NETWORKS: 1 SERVICES: 1 CONTAINERS: 1 TASKS: 1 volumes: - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro networks: - socket_proxy networks: traefik_public: external: true socket_proxy: external: true
  • docker-socket-proxy - Proxy over your Docker socket to restrict which requests it accepts
    1 project | /r/docker | 20 Jan 2022

Watch

Posts with mentions or reviews of Watch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-22.
  • How to monitor secret changes in Kubernetes?
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 22 Aug 2022
    URL: https://github.com/weaveworks/Watch
  • Restart container based on filesystem change ?
    4 projects | /r/docker | 5 Apr 2021
    Does anyone know "some" tool that will restart container based on filesystem change ? For example I am using this https://github.com/weaveworks/Watch for prometheus ( will trigger curl to prometheus API endpoint based on config change ). Of course I can spin as much as I need such containers to check as many as I need files/folders ( and then trigger docker api ), but thats nonsense. Main problem is that watch does not support multiple paths and triggers, what I found is https://github.com/facebook/watchman that can probably work, but that documentation is very tragic and there is almost no support.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing docker-socket-proxy and Watch you can also consider the following projects:

watchtower - A process for automating Docker container base image updates.

watchman - Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.

wireguard-ui - Wireguard web interface

Reloader - A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet and DeploymentConfig – [✩Star] if you're using it!

Diun - Receive notifications when an image is updated on a Docker registry

cadvisor - Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.

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docker - â›´ Docker image of Nextcloud

docker-socket-protector - Protected the Docker Daemon from forbidden requests

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