title: Execute host commands from within a docker container
body: <p>I'm looking for a way for a user to be able to execute a limited set of commands on the host, while only accessing it from containers/browser. The goal is to prevent the need for SSH'ing to the host just to run commands occasionally like <code>make start</code>, <code>make stop</code>, etc. These <code>make</code> commands just execute a series of <code>docker-compose</code> commands and are needed sometimes in dev.</p>
  
  <p>The two possible ways in I can think of are:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Via cloud9 terminal inside browser (we'll already be using it). By default this terminal only accesses the container itself of course.</li>
  <li>Via a custom mini webapp (e.g. node.js/express) with buttons that map to commands. This would be easy to do if running on the host itself, but I want to keep all code like this as containers.</li>
  </ul>