# Docker host with the daemon socket exposed over the network. # # SECURITY: the daemon listens on plain TCP 2375 with NO TLS and NO auth. Access # to that port is root-equivalent on this host (the Docker API can mount the # host filesystem and run privileged containers). The ONLY thing protecting it # is the nftables rule below, which accepts 2375 solely from the trusted LAN # subnet. Do not widen that subnet to anything you do not fully trust. The # secure upgrade path is mutual TLS on 2376 (--tlsverify with client certs); # that needs out-of-band cert provisioning and is intentionally not wired here. { ... }: { virtualisation.docker.enable = true; # Expose the daemon over TCP by extending systemd socket activation rather than # setting daemon.settings.hosts. The NixOS docker unit starts dockerd with # `-H fd://` and takes its listeners from this socket; putting `hosts` in # daemon.json as well would conflict with that and dockerd would refuse to # start. Adding the TCP listener here keeps a single source of truth. # The leading "" resets the unit's default (unix-socket-only) ListenStream list. systemd.sockets.docker.socketConfig.ListenStream = [ "" "/run/docker.sock" "0.0.0.0:2375" ]; # Source-restricted firewall rule for the Docker TCP port. 2375 is deliberately # NOT added to networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts (that would open it to every # source); instead nftables accepts it only from the trusted subnet. Adjust the # CIDR to match the LAN that should reach the Docker API. networking.nftables.enable = true; networking.firewall.extraInputRules = '' ip saddr 10.187.1.0/24 tcp dport 2375 accept ''; }