Run Microsoft teams in docker on linux

build-ms-teams-in-docker.sh

#!/bin/bash
FILE=teams.deb
if [ ! -f "$FILE" ]; then
	curl -L -o $FILE  "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2112886&clcid=0x1c09&culture=en-za&country=za"
fi

docker build -t ms-teams-docker .

Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu
RUN apt-get update && \
apt-get install -y curl apt-utils \
libasound2 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libcairo2 libcups2 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 \
libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libnss3 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 \
libsecret-1-0 libx11-xcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcomposite1 \
libxss1 apt-transport-https libxkbfile1

COPY teams.deb /tmp/teams.deb

RUN dpkg -i /tmp/teams.deb && apt-get install -f

run.sh

#!/bin/bash
docker run -it --net=host --env="DISPLAY" \
--volume="$HOME/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority:rw" \
--privileged \
ms-teams-docker

There is no technical reason the deb file can not be downloaded in the the Dockerfile with curl.
During trail-and-error to get this working, download just took to long, so I externalized and re-used the file.

Currently, you will also need to manually launch "teams" from the container (after running the run.sh script, you will have an open command line in the container).

Is there anyway to externalize the internal config and storage on teams so that you can run multiple copies of teams with different accounts using a separate mapped volume for each?

@thawkins - that should be completely possible, somebody would just need to:

• investigate where teams is storing the relevant information (I have not dug that deep yet, but I suspect it might be under the user home folder)
• figure out something around user permissions (maybe it's ok for the underlying system user user to have access to all the underlying profile and credentials, maybe not)

If we know where teams is storing the data, then the run command will just need additional --volume mounts, eg --volume /path/on/host/system:/path/to/internal/teams/storage/location

Apologies for the half-answer, this was a quick hack job under some time constraints (the meeting was starting!)

I think its just '"~/.config/Microsoft/Microsoft Teams' but i will do some more checking and try it out.

Hi, i could get the app working from xming. But it doesnt work on vncclient. is it something to do with env display=: ?

how can i enable x11 forwarding on vnc so i could view the app on remote desk?

Hello,

I just can't start teams. After running the run.sh a command line opens as intended. Unfortunately nothing happens when I try to launch teams. Any chance somebody has an idea what could cause the issue?

Also makes sense to use a non-root user as the container itself is privileged:

RUN useradd teams && mkdir -p /home/teams && chown teams:teams /home/teams
USER teams

And with --volume="$HOME/.Xauthority:/home/teams/.Xauthority:rw" of course.

I've reused some its of this gist to embed everything in a fork of https://github.com/mdouchement/docker-zoom-us, which I have committed to https://github.com/olberger/docker-teams-linux

No warranty, as I haven't tested much.

Hope this works.