Dockerfile

# Interactive Brokers' Trader Workstation (TWS) container with GUI
# displaying on the Docker host's X-server.
#
# This is based on alekna/ib-tws Interactive Brokers' Trader
# Workstation (TWS) docker container, which uses VNC to access the
# GUI.
#   https://github.com/alekna/docker-ib-tws
#
# It is also based on
#   https://tpaschalis.github.io/sandboxed-browser-with-docker
#
# and for a browser sandbox from a container and sound problems (?) fix.
#   https://github.com/TheBiggerGuy/docker-pulseaudio-example
#

FROM debian:buster

# Timezone is also in docker-compose file.
ENV HOME /root
ENV TZ Europe/Amsterdam
ENV SHELL /bin/bash

# Install basic Desktop environment for ibtws.
RUN apt-get update; \
    apt-get upgrade -y; \
    apt-get install -y procps sudo curl less vim-nox zip openbox tint2 pcmanfm xfce4-terminal; \
    apt-get clean

RUN sed -i "s#\smain\s*\$# main contrib non-free#" /etc/apt/sources.list

# The Chromium web browser must be installed because TWS apparently
# uses its functionality for e.g. iBot.
#
# Configure browser in TWS settings, as follows:
#   /usr/bin/firefox or /usr/bin/chromium
#
RUN apt-get update; \
    apt-get install -y \
      firefox-esr \
      chromium \
      chromium-l10n \
      fonts-liberation \
      fonts-roboto \
      hicolor-icon-theme \
      libcanberra-gtk-module \
      libexif-dev \
      libgl1-mesa-dri \
      libgl1-mesa-glx \
      libpango1.0-0 \
      libv4l-0 \
      fonts-symbola \
      pulseaudio-utils \
      libglib2.0-0 \
      libavcodec58 \
      libavformat58 \
      --no-install-recommends; \
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
    apt-get clean

# Create a non-root account to run TWS with.
RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash --uid 1000 --gid 100 tws; \
    usermod -G audio,video tws;

# RUN echo "tws ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" >> /etc/sudoers

# Check the pulse-client.conf file (is your uid 1000 ?).
COPY pulse-client.conf /etc/pulse/client.conf

USER tws
WORKDIR /home/tws
ENV HOME /home/tws

RUN mkdir -p /home/tws/Downloads; \
    mkdir -p /home/tws/Desktop; \
    mkdir -p /home/tws/bin

# Retrieve and install TWS (and its embedded JRE). Choose between stable and latest.
# Stable: https://download2.interactivebrokers.com/installers/tws/stable/tws-stable-linux-x64.sh
# Latest: https://download2.interactivebrokers.com/installers/tws/latest/tws-latest-linux-x64.sh
RUN cd /home/tws ; \
    curl -sO https://download2.interactivebrokers.com/installers/tws/latest/tws-latest-linux-x64.sh; \
    echo "/home/tws/Jts" | sh ./tws-latest-linux-x64.sh; \
    rm ./tws-latest-linux-x64.sh

# The DISPLAY variable is required to display TWS on your desktop.
ENV PS1='$ '
ENV DISPLAY=":0"

# Start the installed Interactive Brokers' TWS. Its GUI will display on
# the computer that is hosting the Docker container. Be sure to allow
# access to its X-server via the following command:
#   xhost +LOCAL:
#
RUN echo "" >> /home/tws/.bashrc ;\
    echo "echo \"Press Ctrl+C within 5 seconds to abort TWS start...\""  >> /home/tws/.bashrc ;\
    echo "sleep 5" >> /home/tws/.bashrc ;\
    echo "Jts/tws" >> /home/tws/.bashrc
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash"]