socat docker ambassador

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The svendowideit/ambassador Dockerfile

The svendowideit/ambassador image is a small busybox image with socat built in. When you start the container, it uses a small sed script to parse out the (possibly multiple) link environment variables to set up the port forwarding. On the remote host, you need to set the variable using the -e command line option.

-expose 1234 -e REDIS_PORT_1234_TCP=tcp://192.168.1.52:6379 will forward the local 1234 port to the remote IP and port - in this case 192.168.1.52:6379.

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# first you need to build the docker-ut image using ./contrib/mkimage-unittest.sh
# then
#   docker build -t SvenDowideit/ambassador .
#   docker tag SvenDowideit/ambassador ambassador
# then to run it (on the host that has the real backend on it)
#   docker run -t -i -link redis:redis -name redis_ambassador -p 6379:6379 ambassador
# on the remote host, you can set up another ambassador
#    docker run -t -i -name redis_ambassador -expose 6379 sh

FROM    docker-ut
MAINTAINER      SvenDowideit@home.org.au


CMD env | grep _TCP= | \
    sed 's/.*_PORT_\([0-9]*\)_TCP=tcp:\/\/\(.*\):\(.*\)/socat \
    TCP4-LISTEN:\1,fork,reuseaddr TCP4:\2:\3 \&/'  \
    | sh && top