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title: Use wetty under Docker for SSH in the browser
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description: Use weTTY to run a terminal in a browser, baby!
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---
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# Wetty
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[Wetty](https://github.com/krishnasrinivas/wetty) is a responsive, modern terminal, in your web browser. Yes, your browser. When combined with secure authentication and SSL encryption, it becomes a useful tool for quick and easy remote access.
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## Why would you need SSH in a browser window?
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Need shell access to a node with no external access? Deploy Wetty behind an [traefik-forward-auth](/docker-swarm/traefik-forward-auth/) with a SSL-terminating reverse proxy ([traefik](/docker-swarm/traefik/)), and suddenly you have the means to SSH to your private host from any web browser (_protected by your [traefik-forward-auth](/docker-swarm/traefik-forward-auth/) of course._)
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Here are some other possible use cases:
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1. Access to SSH / CLI from an environment where outgoing SSH is locked down, or SSH client isn't / can't be installed. (_i.e., a corporate network_)
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2. Access to long-running processes inside a tmux session (_like [irrsi](https://irssi.org/)_)
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3. Remote access to a VM / [container running Kali linux](https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scripts/kali-docker), for penetration testing
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--8<-- "recipe-standard-ingredients.md"
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## Preparation
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### Setup data locations
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First we create a directory to hold the data which wetty will serve:
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```bash
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mkdir /var/data/config/wetty
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cd /var/data/config/wetty
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```
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### Prepare environment
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Create `/var/data/config/wetty.env`, and populate with the following variables
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```yaml
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# To use WeTTY to SSH to a host besides the (mostly useless) alpine container it comes with
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SSHHOST=batcomputer.batcave.com
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SSHUSER=batman
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```
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### Setup Docker Swarm
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Create a docker swarm config file in docker-compose syntax (v3), something like this:
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--8<-- "premix-cta.md"
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```yaml
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version: "3"
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services:
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wetty:
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image: krishnasrinivas/wetty
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env_file : /var/data/config/wetty/wetty.env
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deploy:
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labels:
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# traefik common
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- traefik.enable=true
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- traefik.docker.network=traefik_public
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# traefikv1
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- traefik.frontend.rule=Host:wetty.example.com
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- traefik.port=3000
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# traefikv2
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- "traefik.http.routers.wetty.rule=Host(`wetty.example.com`)"
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- "traefik.http.services.wetty.loadbalancer.server.port=3000"
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- "traefik.enable=true"
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- "traefik.http.routers.wetty.middlewares=forward-auth@file"
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networks:
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- internal
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- traefik_public
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networks:
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traefik_public:
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external: true
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internal:
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driver: overlay
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ipam:
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config:
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- subnet: 172.16.45.0/24
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```
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--8<-- "reference-networks.md"
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## Serving
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### Launch Wetty stack
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Launch the Wetty stack by running ```docker stack deploy wetty -c <path -to-docker-compose.yml>```
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Browse to your new browser-cli-terminal at https://**YOUR-FQDN**. Authenticate with your OAuth provider, and then proceed to login, either to the remote host you specified (_batcomputer.batcave.com, in the example above_), or using user and password "term" to log directly into the Wetty alpine container (_from which you can establish egress SSH_)
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[^1]: You could set SSHHOST to the IP of the "docker0" interface on your host, which is normally 172.17.0.1. (_Or run ```/sbin/ip route|awk '/default/ { print $3 }'``` in the container_) This would then provide you the ability to remote-manage your swarm with only web access to Wetty.
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[^2]: The inclusion of Wetty was due to the efforts of @gpulido in our [Discord server](http://chat.funkypenguin.co.nz). Thanks Gabriel!
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--8<-- "recipe-footer.md"
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