Forwarding the Docker Socket over SSH

Lately, I’ve been working on some testing tools for Docker Swarm Mode. One of the things that is desirable is to be able to run docker commands locally, and have them execute on a remote cluster. In my case, it lets me develop tests locally without having to cross-compile and then copy files. A little-known trick that OpenSSH can do since 6.7 is forward Unix domain sockets over SSH using the same

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-L supports unix socket since openssh 6.7