OpenClaw is so bad with Docker. I spent hours on it and hit road block after road block trying to get the most basic things working.

The last one was inability to install dependencies on the docker container to enable plugins. The existing scripts and instructions don’t work (at least I couldn’t get them to work. Maybe a me problem).

So I gave up and moved on. What was supposed to be a helpful assistant became a nightmare.

Did you try Incus? Gives you VM-like experience in a container

Why not use a VM?

Why not ask an AI?

Because I have a machine running dozens of apps on Docker and have a solid and stable workflow I want to take advantage of to manage my apps.

I’m not an engineer and now I realise why I’ve been struggling getting OpenClaw setup in docker. I just can’t get it to work. Makes sense that it needs access to the underlying OS

Same experience. I used Coolify and it was so hard. I wondered why people are so enthralled with this unacceptable UX for setup, only to realize no one cared about Docker and they just got a new Mac mini or used their own system.

Absolutely this. I finally got it working, but the instructions and scripts for setting it up with Docker absolutely do not work.

I'm curious if people have had success running it on Cloudflare workers. I know there was a lot of hype about that a few weeks ago.

Riight, unprivileged lxc/lxd container takes 2s to set up. Thanks NV, sticking with opencode.

The problem is that it cannot access your credentials hence useless.

Containers and VMs are really annoying to work with for these kinds of applications. Things like agent-safehouse and greywall are better imo

I've honestly found containers a breeze for such use cases. Inference lives on the host, crazy lives in an unpriv'd overlayfs container that I don't mind trashing the root of, and is like nothing in resources to clone, and gives a clean mitm surface via a veth. That said, greywall looks pretty dope!