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My case:

I have a project that parses the website using selenium chrome driver. Currently, I am using 5 computers under Windows OS (1 physical and 4 VM inside the physical). I am using this setup because of the captcha, so each machine has its own public IP (using VPN).

I was thinking of enlarging this project under docker and want to ensure some aspects.

  1. Is it possible to have a docker(windows instances) that acts like a VM (like has graphical interface, installation VPN and so on)? I am thinking because, VM are seems to be resource intensive (only difference is IP and separate chrome driver).
  2. Docker seems to more friendly with ubuntu. Can I setup one ubuntu and create N number of docker with its own VPN, but use chrome driver of the main ubuntu machine?
  3. Can I access those docker via anydesk, or smth like that? Graphical interface is important for now. (In the future planning to test with headless mode).

Thanks in advance!

I have read some materials but i am confused a liitle.

Manap Shymyr
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  1. While it looks like some people do run GUI applications with Docker, this is not the common usage. The short answer would be no for GUIs.

  2. VMs are resource intensive. Using containers has many advantages: lightweight, start faster, easy to move/share, ...

  3. Docker is more friendly with Linux distributions. The developer experience can easily be awful on non-Linux OS.

  4. You can start multiple containers of the same image, manually or using Docker Compose. You just need to make sure there's no port mapping conflicts.

  5. Again, probably no GUI available but headless tools using W3C WebDrivers still allow taking screenshots like Panther.

I can't answer about VPNs as I have no knowledge about them.

AymDev
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