Dockerized OpenVPN in ShinyProxy

ShinyProxy
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Hi everyone,

I ran into difficulties with launching openVPN in shinyProxy. I need it for my shinyapp which has to access the database with openVPN connection. So I have 3 docker images: my app, openvpn, and shinyproxy.

  1. Here is the sample Dockerfile which is used to create an image for **
   FROM ubuntu:16.04

     RUN apt-get update && \
        apt-get clean && apt-get -y update && apt-get install -y locales curl && \
        apt-get install -y php apache2 curl openvpn zip unzip bridge-utils && \
        apt-get install nano && \
        mkdir -p /dev/net && \
        mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200 && \
        chmod 600 /dev/net/tun

    RUN apt-get -y install r-       

    COPY tcp  /etc/openvpn

    EXPOSE 80

    CMD openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/user111.ovpn`
  1. I took a dockerfile for shinyproxy from https://github.com/openanalytics/shinyproxy-config-examples
  2. Here is the application.yml file :
proxy:
  port: 8080
  authentication: simple
  admin-groups: admins
  users:
  - name: jack
    password: password
    groups: admins
  docker:
      internal-networking: true
      privileged: true
  specs:
  - id: drei
    display-name: Daily Forecast
    container-cmd: ["R", "-e", "shiny::runApp('/root/myapp')"]
    container-image: dreitest
    container-network: mynet
  - id: myovpn
    display-name: VPN
    container-cmd: ["openvpn" ,"--config", " /etc/openvpn/user111.ovpn"] 
    container-image: ovpn
    container-network: mynet
    
logging:
  file:
    shinyproxy.log

I also tried to run it from R like container-cmd: ["R", "-e", "system('openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/user111.ovpn')"] , but it didn’t work.

When I run it “mannually” using

docker run -p 80:80 --privileged ovpn openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/user111.ovpn,

it works. When I launch it with shinyProxy, I get an error:

Status code: 500 Message: Container did not respond in time

Please help me to solve this issue.

Best,
Jibek