Install OmniTools Inside Docker Container on Linux

OmniTools is a web-based application that provides useful tools to simplify everyday tasks. It includes various tools related with images, text, JSON, PDF, CSV, and more.

This tutorial explains how to install OmniTools inside a Docker container on the Linux. Commands have been tested on Ubuntu.

Prepare environment

Make sure you have installed Docker in your system. If you are using Ubuntu, installation instructions can be found in the post.

Install OmniTools

• Host network

Run the following command to create a container for OmniTools that uses host network:

docker run -d --name=omni-tools --restart=always --network=host \
    iib0011/omni-tools

• User-defined bridge network

User-defined bridge network can be used for listening on different port. By default, OmniTools service is listening on port 80. It can be changed with -p option.

docker network create app-net

docker run -d --name=omni-tools --restart=always --network=app-net \
    -p 8080:80 \
    iib0011/omni-tools

Testing OmniTools

To access the web application, open a web browser and navigate to http://<IP_ADDRESS>, replacing <IP_ADDRESS> with the actual IP address of the system.

Uninstall OmniTools

To completely remove OmniTools, remove its container:

docker rm --force omni-tools

Remove OmniTools image:

docker rmi iib0011/omni-tools

If a user-defined bridge network was created, you can delete it as follows:

docker network rm app-net