Execute commands on docker host from webapp

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

You can’t execute commands on the host from a container. This is the point of containers. There was an other topic where I explained it and suggested some solutions:

How to restart a systemd service from docker container?

Without seeing what is in your python script, I don’t know how you try to restart a service on the host, but the point of a container is that it is isolated from the host so you can’t directly restart anything outside the container. Maybe if you use the process namespace of the host and also use privileged container or proper capabilities. Similarly to the “black box” python script, I don’t know what that command says, but the fact that your container works, doesn’t mean that it has access to…