Dockerfile which installs commonly used libraries and tools for C++ development on top of Ubuntu.
The image is automatically build using Docker Cloud and gets then deployed to Docker Hub as nioshd/ubuntu-cppdev:latest.
Simply download the image (i.e., docker pull nioshd/ubuntu-cppdev) from docker hub and launch it with the desired flags. Running bash in a temporary container, where the current home is mounted as /mnt/<username>, and with the same user ID and group ID as the current user, can for example be achieved using the following command.
$ docker run -ti --rm -v /etc/group:/etc/group:ro -v /etc/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro --user=$(id -u):$(id -g) -v ${HOME}:/mnt/${USERNAME} -w /mnt/${USERNAME} nioshd/ubuntu-cppdev bash
If graphical applications should be run inside the container, additionally the xserver has to be exposed to the container. This can be achieved by adding the following paramerters to the docker run command:
-h $(hostname) -e DISPLAY -e XAUTHORITY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -v ${XAUTHORITY}:${XAUTHORITY}