How to run google chrome headless in docker?

Question

My problem is how to run google chrome in docker container for e2e testing. I create a Dockerfile from official Jenkins image, but when try to run google chrome

Answer 1

Using this image alpeware/chrome-headless-trunk worked for me in ubuntu! The command used in that container to launch headless chrome is this:

/usr/bin/google-chrome-unstable \
--disable-gpu --headless --no-sandbox \
--remote-debugging-address=0.0.0.0 \
--remote-debugging-port=9222 --user-data-dir=/data

here's a short video of the container in action

I launched the container in Ubuntu with this command:

 docker run -it --rm -p=0.0.0.0:9222:9222 \ 
 --name=chrome-headless \
 -v /tmp/chromedata/:/data alpeware/chrome-headless-trunk

then used Chrome to connect to the debug port at localhost:9222

With some modifications you could probably get this running in Jenkins!

Sources

• https://hub.docker.com/r/alpeware/chrome-headless-trunk/
• https://github.com/alpeware/chrome-headless-trunk