Docker Headless VNC Container 1.3.0 Released

Docker Headless VNC Container 1.3.0 has been released today. The different Docker images contains a complete VNC based, headless UI environment for testautomation like Sakuli does or simply for web browsing and temporary work in a throw-away UI container. The functionality is pretty near to a VM based image, but can be started in seconds instead of minutes. Each Docker image has therefore installed the following components:

• Desktop environment Xfce4 or IceWM
• VNC-Server (default VNC port 5901)
• noVNC - HTML5 VNC client (default http port 6901)
• Browsers:
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Chromium

For more information about the usage take a look at github.com/ConSol/docker-headless-vnc-container.

Updates for Version 1.3.0

• change default USER to 1000 (#61)
• refactor vnc startup script (#73)
  • add help option --help
  • ensure correct forwarding of shutdown signals
  • add “DEBUG” mode and move all log output to this mode
  • update README.md
• merge pull request from:
  • hsiaoyi0504 update noVNC to v1.0.0 (#66)
• add example for Kubernetes usage (#71)
• remove verbose output by default from set_user_permissions.sh script