joshuacox/havegedocker repository overview

⁠havegedocker

Docker Haveged is a container as an entropy gathering service.

Haveged Version: 1.9.1-1

⁠Use case

In case you need an entropy gathering service on your docker host but don't want to / can't install locally an entropy gathering service.

The service makes more sense on Cloud servers and more specifically on CoreOS servers where you cannot install locally services.

⁠Checklist

The purpose of the service is to make sure you have available entropy on your host. To check if you are running low:

make show

If the number is below 1000 then it is probably depleted.

⁠Quickstart

To run the container:

docker run --privileged -d joshuacox/havegedocker:latest

or build and run locally:

make run

⁠Test Entropy

In order to test the quality of entropy you can use rngtest

make test

⁠Show the logs

make logs

⁠Enter the container

make enter

inspired by the ubuntu based image here: https://github.com/harbur/docker-haveged⁠