Because currently the --print-to-pdf CLI switch does not allow disabling of header/footer the approach uses a nodejs script which connects to chrome via remote interface. It also executes 5s of javascript (virtual time) to ensure that the page is fully rendered.

Check out the code by my colleague: chrome-headless-render.

You need to mount a container workdir locally to be able to get the output file. Also because chrome uses some kernel feature for sandboxing you need to run the container in --privileged mode. It's possible to work around this by disabling sandboxing but this seems to work best.

The workdir is /tmp/html-to-pdf, thus running:

docker run -v /your-local-dir:/tmp/html-to-pdf --privileged pink33n/html-to-pdf --url http://google.com --pdf out.pdf

Will produce /your-local-dir/out.pdf file.

The container versioning scheme is ${MAJOR_CHROME_VERSION}.${CONTAINER_VERSION}