Headless Google Chrome

This docker image uses the Google Chrome stable channel that introduced headless execution with version 59.

There are currently two feasible options to run Chrome inside Docker:

• Specify a Docker security profile that allows the Chrome sandbox (docker run --security-opt seccomp=chrome.json)
  • Jess Frazelle (@jessfraz) has created such a profile for Chrome
• Disable the Chrome sandbox (google-chrome --no-sandbox)
  • This lowers the security of Chrome and is not recommended when browsing untrusted web content

Examples

Security Profile

Download @jessfraz Docker security profile for Chrome:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jessfraz/dotfiles/master/etc/docker/seccomp/chrome.json

Browse to Google and save a screenshot to the current directory:

docker run --rm --security-opt seccomp=chrome.json -v $PWD:/data armbues/chrome-headless --screenshot http://www.google.com

Start Chrome with the remote debugging port running on 9222 and map it to the host:

docker run --rm -d --security-opt seccomp=chrome.json -p 9222:9222 armbues/chrome-headless --remote-debugging-address=0.0.0.0 --remote-debugging-port=9222

Disabled Chrome sandbox

Browse to Google and save a screenshot to the current directory:

docker run --rm -v $PWD:/data armbues/chrome-headless --no-sandbox --screenshot http://www.google.com

Start Chrome with the remote debugging port running on 9222 and map it to the host:

docker run --rm -d -p 9222:9222 armbues/chrome-headless --no-sandbox --remote-debugging-address=0.0.0.0 --remote-debugging-port=9222