TL;DR

I recently uploaded an updated dibs image that can be run with Docker.

It’s on the Docker Hub as dibs, tags 0.5, 0.5.4, or latest (unless, of course, you want to use the full date tag 20200307-095549-18837).

The driver script can be slightly simplified with respect to what described in dibs:

#!/bin/sh
docker run --rm \
   -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
   -v "$PWD:/mnt" \
   -e "DIBS_HOST_REMAP_DIR=/mnt:$PWD" \
   -- polettix/dibs:0.5 "$@"

Local version here - save as dibs somewhere in PATH, set the execution bit, and you’re done - you have a wrapper around dibs that will work in the current directory.

Requires root permissions to run - but only to run suexec as described in Command-line Docker Applications - A way forward.