For paranoid folks who want to test code away from their home environment.

The image is based on Ubuntu 19.10 and comes with various things installed, notably:

• Go version 1.14.1
• Kind version 0.8.0-alpha
• Kubectl version 1.17.0
• Some pimped out Vim and Tmux

To simply run the container as a sandbox for cloning and looking at stuff:

docker run -it callisto13/tin-foil-hat /bin/bash

To clone stuff and then deploy it to kube:

Running docker in docker is a pain in the ass and not generally advised. (Running containers in containers is doable, but I can't be bothered to set that up right now.)

So if whatever you are testing needs to deploy to docker/kube, you can run the container with your host socket mounted. Any containers you create within the tin-foil-hat container will appear as siblings on the host. Likewise, the tin-foil-hat container will be visible from the inside. Try not to do anything stupid with it.

docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -it callisto13/tin-foil-hat /bin/bash

Once inside you can create a kind cluster as you would normally, and connect to it via kubectl (no bash shortcuts installed yet).

There is currently one manual step: the clusters you create will be in sibling containers, which means you will need to connect to them via the host network, not localhost.

Update the server field in /root/.kube/config to https://host.docker.internal:<port>.

coming soon: connect to some other kube cluster already running on the host.

If you want to use (decent) Vim while in the container, run the following:

/root/.vimupdate

It may complain at the start but don't worry about it.