Debian Docker Base Image with Useful Tools

Dockerfile for extending official Debian image with useful tools, e.g. Git, Wget, etc. The Image is a good starting point to create your own small images with some handy tools. See Docker Hub for more details about the image.

What's inside?

• ca-certificates: Brings root certs for trusting secured connections with common CAs.
• cron: Use Cron jobs for scheduling tasks like cleanup processes.
• curl: Swiss army knife to use various number of protocols.
• git: THE version control system.
• nano: Easy editor for modifying files.
• openssh-server: For connecting to the container via SSH and executing commands within.
• rsync: Use it for copying files from server A to server B.
• ssmtp: Tiny mail server for sending mails from your application to the world.
• supervisor: Helper for running multiple processes in a container, e.g. cron and openssh-server.
• unzip: Unpack ZIP archives.
• vim: Powerful editor for nerds.
• wget: The standard for downloading archives.

Supported Tags

• jessie, latest (Dockerfile)

Log into container via SSH with public key

Mount your public key into the container and define the path with environment variable SSH_AUTHORIZED_KEYS. Example:

docker run -d -P -v ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub:/authorized_keys:ro -e "SSH_AUTHORIZED_KEYS=/authorized_keys" servivum/debian

Use sSMTP with external SMTP relay server

sSMTP is like a proxy which delegates the mails to a real MTA like postfix. With these environment variables it is possible to define a relay server with the corresponding credentials.

docker run -d -P \
-e "SMTP_HOST=smtp.example.com" \
-e "SMTP_AUTH_USER=test@example.com" \
-e "SMTP_AUTH_PASS=secret" \
-e "SMTP_STARTTLS=true" \
servivum/debian