Running Ngrok in a container using docker - docker

Question

[https://github.com/gtriggiano/ngrok-tunnel ] runs ngrok inside a container. Ngrok is required to run in the container to avert security risks. But am facing problems after running the scripts, which generates the url
$ docker pull gtriggiano/ngrok-tunnel
$ docker run -it -e "TARGET_HOST=localhost" -e "TARGET_PORT=3000" -p 4040 gtriggiano/ngrok-tunnel
am running my rails app on localhost:3000
is it my problem or can it be fixed by altering the scripts(inside the repo)?

Answer 1

I couldn't get this working but switched to https://github.com/shkoliar/docker-ngrok and it works brilliantly.
In my case I added it to my docker-compose.yml file:
ngrok:
image: shkoliar/ngrok:latest
ports:
- 4551:4551
links:
- web
environment:
- PARAMS=http -region=eu -authtoken=${NGROK_AUTH_TOKEN} localdev.docker:80
networks:
dev_net:
ipv4_address: 10.5.0.10
And it's started with everything else when I do docker-compose up -d
Then there's a web UI at http://localhost:4551/ for you to see the status, requests, the ngrok URLs, etc.
The Github page does have examples of running it manually from the command line too though, rather than via docker-compose:
Command-line Example The example below assumes that you have running
web server docker container named dev_web_1 with exposed port 80.
docker run --rm -it --link dev_web_1 shkoliar/ngrok ngrok http dev_web_1:80
With command line usage, ngrok session is active until it
won't be terminated by Ctrl+C combination.

Answer 2

No. if you execute -p with single number it's container port - host port is randomly assigned.
Using -p, --publish ip:[hostPort]:containerPort at docker run can specify the the host port with the container port.
as of now the 4040 of container is exposed. Not sure if your service listens by default on it.
To get localhost port execute
docker ps
you'll see the actual port it's not listening on.
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
1aaaeffe789d gtriggiano/ngrok-tunnel "npm start" About a minute ago Up About a minute 0.0.0.0:32768->4040/tcp wizardly_poincare
here it's listening on localhost:32768

Answer 3

this composer works for me. Note that in the entrypoint command for ngrok you have to reference the other service by name
version: '3'
services:
yourwebserver:
build:
context: ./
dockerfile: ...
target: ...
container_name: yourwebserver
volumes:
- ...
ports:
- ...
extra_hosts:
- 'host.docker.internal:host-gateway'
depends_on:
- ngrok
ngrok:
image: ngrok/ngrok:alpine
environment:
NGROK_AUTHTOKEN: '...'
command: 'http yourwebserver:80'
ports:
- '4040:4040'
expose:
- '4040'

Answer 4

I'm not sure if you have already solved this but when I was getting this error I could only solve it like this:
# docker-compose.yml
networks:
- development
I also needed to expose the 3000 port of my web container because it still wasn't exposed.
# docker.compose.yml
web:
expose:
- "3000"
My container for the server running on development is also under the development network. The only parameters, I believe, you should pass for the container to execute are image, ports, environment with DOMAIN and PORT for the server container, a link, and an expose on your web container:
# docker-compose.yml
ngrok:
image: shkoliar/ngrok
ports:
- 4551:4551
links:
- web
networks:
- development
environment:
- DOMAIN=squad_web
- PORT=3000

Answer 5

Actually to make ngrok work with your docker container you can install it outside of your project just like the manual on their website says. And then add
nginx:
labels:
- "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}_nginx.rule=Host(`${PROJECT_BASE_URL}`, `aaa-abc-xxx-140-177.eu.ngrok.io`)"
This particular example is for docker4drupal docker-compose file and traefik mapped as 80:80