Docker - Apache Guacamole

Installing Apache Guacamole in Docker

Pulling the images 

docker pull guacamole/guacamole
docker pull guacamole/guacd
docker pull mysql/mysql-server

Setting up the Database

  1. Create db initialization script
docker run --rm guacamole/guacamole /opt/guacamole/bin/initdb.sh --mysql > initdb.sql
  1. Get the one-time password for MySQL (Look for [Entrypoint] GENERATED ROOT PASSWORD: <password> in the log)
docker run --name guac-db -e MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD=yes -e MYSQL_ONETIME_PASSWORD=yes -d mysql/mysql-server
docker logs guac-db
  1. Copy the initialization script into the MySQL container
docker cp initdb.sql guac-db:/guac_db.sql
  1. Bash into the MySQL container
docker exec -it example-mysql bash
  1. Log into MySQL using the one-time password you copied in step 2
mysql -u root -p
  1. Change MySQL root password, create guacamole database, create database user and grant privileges. Change password to something you’d like to use
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
CREATE DATABASE guacamole_db;
CREATE USER 'guacamole_user'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON guacamole_db.* TO 'guacamole_user'@'%';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit
  1. Create guacamole tables via the initialization script
cat guac_db.sql | mysql -u root -p guacamole_db
  1. Leave the container bash
exit

Start Guacamole containers

  1. Start up guacd
docker run --name guacd -d guacamole/guacd
  1. Start up Guacamole, link it do guacd and guac-db
docker run --name guacamole --link guacd:guacd --link guac-db:mysql -e MYSQL_DATABASE=guacamole_db -e MYSQL_USER=guacamole_user -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=guacamole_user_password -d -p 0.0.0.0:8080:8080 guacamole/guacamole
  1. Verify all three containers are running
docker ps -a

Access Guacamole

Access the Guacamole server at http://[YOUR_DOCKER_HOST]:8080/guacamole/ the default username/password is guacadmin for both fields.

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