`docker run` on a remote host

Question

is it possible (using the docker command or the docker-py API directly) to start a container from a remote host?

Lets assume I have two mac

Answer 1

Check if the latest docker 18.09 includes that feature.
See docker/cli PR 1014

Added support for SSH connection. e.g. docker -H ssh://me@server

• The cli should accept ssh://me@server for DOCKER_HOST and -H. Using that would execute ssh with the passed config.
• The ssh command would call a hidden command on the docker CLI binary on the remote side. For example, docker dial-stdio.

This command will make a connection to the local DOCKER_HOST variable (almost always the default local socket) and forward that connection on the commands stdio.
Even though this command is supposed to run locally to the dockerd binary, we think that it is an invalid configuration for this feature to remove the local docker binary so we can rely on it always being present.

How to verify it

docker -H ssh://me@server run -it --rm busybox

The reaction so far:

From ops and sysadmins everywhere, we thank you for this fantastic and unexpected feature.
I'm hoping this will seriously cut down the number of times I see people opening dockerd TCP w/o TLS and just opt for SSH endpoints for remote mgmt.