Running your Terminal in a remote container and accessing it via HTTPS

There are situations where you need to access a remote server and only have the option to use a browser for that. Your laptop may be locked down by your employer so that you are not allowed to, for example, ssh into a server outside of the company's domain.

To test this scenario proceed as follows:

1. Create a free account on Microsoft Azure, GCP, or AWS. Then, create a VM, preferably with Ubuntu 18.04 or higher as the operating system, to follow along more easily.
2. Once your VM is ready, SSH into it. The command to do so should look similar to this:

$ ssh [email protected]

To get access, you may need to open port 22 for ingress first for the VM.

The user I have defined during the provisioning of the VM is gnschenker and the public IP address of my VM is 40.115.4.249.

3. Install Docker on...