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    SOCKS technology can be used to bypass numerous restrictions that may be associated with your location. To make sure that no one is watching your traffic, you can use Wireguard VPN.

    But sometimes, VPN requires you to install special client software on your personal computer or smartphone, which you may not have sufficient rights to do. In this case, you can use the free alternative to the SOCKS 5 proxy tunnel.

    In this article, we will look at how to install it in a Docker container using docker-compose as well.

    Let's install Docker.

    But first, you need to update the OS packages.

    apt update
    

    Install the necessary packages and add a new repository:

    apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common
    
    curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt key add -
    
    add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
    

    Update the packages with the new repository:

    apt update
    

    Now let's install Docker itself.

    apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
    

    Let's check the version:

    docker --version
    


    Let's check the status:

    systemctl status docker
    


    If it does not start, then run:

    systemctl start docker
    

    And add to autorun.

    systemctl enable docker
    


    Install Docker Compose

    For this project, version 1.25 will be enough for us.

    curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.25.5/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin /docker-compose
    

    Set permissions to launch.

    chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
    

    Check how Docker-Compose was installed:

    docker-compose --version
    


    Add a Linux user to the docker group:

    usermod -aG docker $USER
    

    Let's create a *.yaml file for Docker-Compose.

    To navigate in the future in what we have installed, let's create a separate folder for this project in the /home directory and go to it.

    mkdir /home/socks5 && cd /home/socks5
    

    You can also use a different directory to host this and other projects.

    Let's use the repository to create the docker-compose.yaml file at https://hub.docker.com/r/xkuma/socks5

    Create a docker-compose.yaml or docker-compose.yml file,

    vim docker-compose.yaml
    
    And add the following code to it:

    version: "2.1"
    services:
      socks5:
        image: olebedev/socks5
        container_name: socks5_test
        environment:
          - PROXY_USER=your_user
          - PROXY_PASSWORD=your_pass
        ports:
          - 1080:1080/tcp
        restart: always

    Where:

    container_name: name of your container;
    PROXY_USER: user;
    PROXY_PASSWORD: user password
    1080:1080/tcp: port on which SOCKS will work.

    Run the script (to do this, you need to be in the directory where our file was created. In this case, it is /home/socks5/):

    docker-compose up -d
    

    We are waiting for the download of images, and deployment.

    We check:

    docker-compose ps
    

    or

    docker ps
    


    It can also be done with one command without using docker compose.
    docker run -d -p 1080:1080 -e PROXY_USER=your_user -e PROXY_PASSWORD=your_pass -e PROXY_SERVER=0.0.0.0:1080 xkuma/socks5
    

    Now you can use your login and password with the port and IP of your server to connect.

    To check and make sure everything is configured correctly, we can use the following command on another server:

    curl --socks5 your_user:[email protected]:1080 https://ifconfig.io
    

    If everything is configured correctly, then in response, we will receive the IP of the server hosting our SOCKS5.


    For example, to connect SOCKS5 to Telegram, enter:

    Server/Host: IP:1080
    User: your_user
    Password: your_pass


    In browsers, Google Chrome or Firefox, you can use additional plugins to connect this SOCKS5.

    Safe surfing for you.