Access Docker socket within container

Question

I am attempting to create a container that can access the host docker remote API via the docker socket file (host machine - /var/run/docker.sock).

The answer here suggests proxying requests to the socket. How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

I figured it out. You can simply pass the the socket file through the volume argument

docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/container/path/docker.sock

As @zarathustra points out, this may not be the greatest idea however. See: https://www.lvh.io/posts/dont-expose-the-docker-socket-not-even-to-a-container.html