you can achieve this by creating a container with the ubuntu image and using the -it flags when running it. Make sure to also have the necessary packages installed inside the container.

That’s not what Docker is intended for

In Portainer, you need to set the flag interactive and terminal, which keeps the container alive, even though there is no init process defined

thats what a VM would be for if you want full install

Hm, Docker isn’t very good at this. It’s good at runnign one process or a few related processes with a smaller init system like S6, but not good at running a full system with its own init and system handlers.

Lots of stuff will break, because it’s expected that a lot of system-level initialization will be taking place. Docker is too opinionated when it comes to this, because it expects to be running on a system that has already been initialized.

Look to LXC or LXD. It’s more appropriate for this, and while it’s a container system it’s more like virtualization than application containerization. It’s also designed to be mutable, which is the main limitation you’re running up against.

For anyone wondering why? Im trying to have a access to a terminal without anything installed on it to test some stuff abd delete it afterwards without breaking my main OS since my VPS has small amount of memory and cores so i want something simple as running docker container with for example deb, install git repo test if it works make it ready for docker, delete it afterwards and deploy it!!!

Defeats the purpose of a container. Next.

You try to make a VM out of a container… Try qemu maybe?

Try webtop from linuxserver

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