Using the Blender GUI in containers

To use the Blender GUI from a container follow this startup script:

XSOCK=/tmp/.X11-unix
XAUTH=/tmp/.docker.xauth
touch $XAUTH
xauth nlist $DISPLAY | sed -e 's/^..../ffff/' | xauth -f $XAUTH nmerge -

docker run \
        --gpus all \
        -it \ 
	-v $XSOCK:$XSOCK:rw \
	-v $XAUTH:$XAUTH:rw \
        --device=/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0 \
	-e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY \
	-e XAUTHORITY=$XAUTH \
        nytimes/blender:2.82-gpu-ubuntu18.04

By launching Blender inside the container with --device=/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0 and --gpus all you should be able to now use it with both Cycles and Eevee.

Tested on Ubuntu 19.10 with Docker 19.03.8