# Docker within docker privileged mode for web app hosting
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**Author:**  [@andreped](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fandreped)%5C
**Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fdocker-within-docker-privileged-mode-for-web-app-hosting%2F55277%2F1 "2023-09-16T20:02:15Z")
Apparently, HF spaces does have plans to support `docker-compose`, as discussed in [this thread](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fsupport-for-docker-compose-in-spaces%2F41512).
This is an issue, as I want to test if I could deploy an already containerized web solution through Hugging Face, for pure demo purposes - to showcase the web solution and some AI models on medical images.
As HF spaces did not support `docker-compose`, I figured I might get around the issue by going for a docker-within-docker approach. However, to run `docker-compose` inside the `Dockerfile`, which is required and expected by the HF space for deployment, I’m running into some issues. I became aware of some limitations with said approach. To access and run docker commands from within docker, I will need to launch the original docker container by:
```auto
docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -ti docker
```
As I doubt that HF spaces has this by default, I guess this is not viable. Alternatively, if the original container is spawned in privileged mode, I wouldn’t need to do the `docker.sock` approach:
```auto
docker run --privileged -d --name dind-test docker:dind
```
But then again, I doubt HF spaces do any of these. Are there any other workaround I am not seeing?
My project is hosted at:
> **[Digital Slide Archive: Platform for working with large microscopy images. - a...](https://huggingface.co/spaces/andreped/dsa4hf)**
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**Author:**  [@radames](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fradames)%5C
**Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fdocker-within-docker-privileged-mode-for-web-app-hosting%2F55277%2F2 "2023-09-16T20:19:47Z")
hi @andreped this is very cool! I’m going to loop @XciD and @chris-rannou here and see if they can tell us if that’s possible.
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**Author:**  [@andreped](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fandreped)%5C
**Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fdocker-within-docker-privileged-mode-for-web-app-hosting%2F55277%2F3 "2023-09-17T19:33:40Z")
Note that to deploy locally, you can simply do:
```auto
git clone https://github.com/andreped/dsa4hf
cd dsa4hf/dsa/
docker-compose pull
DSA_USER=$(id -u):$(id -g) docker-compose up
```
In essense, this is what I want to get working on HF spaces. If I manage to find a solution to this, there are also other web apps I could do the same fix for, so a workaround to this problem would be great :]
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**Author:**  [@Ark-kun](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FArk-kun)%5C
**Post date:** [October 2, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fdocker-within-docker-privileged-mode-for-web-app-hosting%2F55277%2F4 "2025-10-02T22:36:42Z")
@XciD @chris-rannou So, is running multiple Docker containers inside a single HuggingFace Space possible in 2025?