Launching GUI application on the Docker

This article is about launching GUI application on top of docker.

First we have to check whether docker is installed in our system for that we use command docker version

Next we have to install docker image. We can install any image. We are going to install centos image. If we don’t give version than it’s going to install the latest version. Command is docker pull centos:

To launch the container we have to use run command with some parameters.

Now we can install application that we will run on the container. Command is yum install firefox

Now we can launch the installed application. We can open firefox through command line using firefox command.

Here we can see firefox launched. Task Accomplished !!