Using Burp with Containers In Docker

Making Docker Containers Trust Burp Suite’s CA for Testing

When testing applications running inside Docker containers, intercepting traffic with Burp Suite can be challenging because containers don’t automatically trust Burp’s CA certificate. Without trust, HTTPS requests from inside the container will fail with certificate errors.

In this post, I’ll show you how to:

  1. Add Burp Suite’s CA to your host system
  2. Pass the trusted CA to Docker containers
  3. Ensure seamless HTTPS traffic interception for testing

Let’s get started!

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Run X11 applications on docker or podman

2024-03-29 1 min read Linux Networking Docker Containers

Found x11docker project in github. This is a very nice project if you are trying to run GUI applications in dockers. It takes the hassle out and helps you run the GUI applications very easily in docker.

Whats more, if you are on Fedora, you are in luck. You can install this tool with

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sudo dnf install x11docker

and if you are not on Fedora, then head over to their github. Some other distributions also have it packaged but otherwise also it is very simple to install.

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