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For some reason I thought this was gonna be a demo of running docker in your browser through WASM. kinda disappointed that's not it :p

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Funnily enough, I believe that's completely achievable with enough time spent on it (probably a few weeks of an engineer working full time).

We have technology like WebVM [1] (from leaningtech / CheerP) or Copy86 [2] that already allows x86 machine code execution/emulation on the web. If you add an OCI client layer on top that is executable in the browser, it should be possible to run Docker containers in the browser.

[1] https://webvm.io/

[2] https://copy.sh/v86/

Sorry I can't reset my docker password to double check, but I think something like this exists [1]. I'm not sure what its limits are, but its a great tool for learning.

[1] https://labs.play-with-docker.com/

I just played with it and it doesn't execute the container in the browser. It executes it remotely and proxies the stdin/stdout and such from/to the browser (the browser is just a client instead of a runner)

I think the biggest challenge here is getting the resources through the browser - e.g. enough memory to run a decent container, or the ability to open a listening port.

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