00mjk / contained-zoom

A docker file and wrapper to run zoom inside a container

contained-zoom

A docker file and wrapper to run zoom inside a container.

Pre-requisites

Requires a locally installed docker command (on a Debian based distro: apt install docker.io).

Also, your user needs to be allowed to access docker resources. You might need to add your user to the docker group (sudo adduser <your user> docker; newgrp docker if you're on a Debian based distro).

Generating the container

git clone https://github.com/margamanterola/contained-zoom
cd contained-zoom/
docker build -t zoom .

Running the container

The run-zoom.sh wrapper can be used to invoke the command with the right parameters. It will automatically give access to the audio and video of the computer where it's running.

The container can be run with PARANOID_MODE on or off. When on, the application won't write anything to disk. When off, the .config/zoomus.conf file and the .zoom directory will be persisted to disk (not in their normal paths, but in .local/contained-zoom).

Associating the executable in Firefox

You can associate the run-zoom.sh script with the zoommtg Content Type in Firefox to have the application open automatically from the browser.

Associating the executable in Chrome

In Chrome, Zoom triggers an xdg-open call, so you need to set up the application association. You can do this following these commands:

mkdir -p ~/.local/contained-zoom/
cp run-zoom.sh ~/.local/contained-zoom/
sed "s,~,$HOME,g" contained-zoom.desktop > $HOME/.local/share/applications/contained-zoom.desktop
cat mimeapps.list >> ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list