Is there anyway to build an image with Dockerfile while using Kitematic?
From the top of the docs for Kitematic
Legacy desktop solution. Kitematic is a legacy solution, bundled with Docker Toolbox. We recommend updating to Docker for Mac or Docker for Windows if your system meets the requirements for one of those applications.
If possible, you should avoid using the tool.
If you have to use Kitematic, the feature you are asking about is tracked by this GitHub issue: Import Dockerfile - (Docker build). At the time of writing the feature is not implemented.
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Let's say I have old, unmaintained application that lives on a VPS (i.e. Symfony 3 PHP app that relies on PHP 5).
If some changes are needed I have to clone this app to my desktop, build it, change and re-deploy. As time goes, recreating desktop dev environment gets harder - in this example I can't simply build the app as I use PHP7 in my CLI that breaks building process.
I tried to dockerize the app, so I added Ubuntu 18 to my docker-compose file... and it doesn't work as latest Ubuntu that has PHP5 support is 14.04. 14.04 is also the oldest (official) version available on DockerHub. But will it be still available in 3 years? If not, Docker won't build a container.
So, my question is: is Docker a right tool to solve described problem at all?
If so, should I backup docker images described that my build relies on?
If not, beside proper maintenance, what tool is better?
You can install PHP5 in newer ubuntu versions, but it means adding an external repository.
You could also create your own docker image, containing only the libraries you want. If so, I'd advise to try and use alpine as a base image. There is a bit of a learning curve to adapt, but once you do it you'll have a small image tailored to your needs.
Given that containers allow you to isolate processus and conf with minimal footprint compared to a VM, I think it is the best option. Tailoring and maintaining your own image is not that expensive in terms of maintenance if you document it correctly, and it will allow you to always have a system 'maintaining' all your precise requirements.
Good Day:
I have been trying to create an Odoo 12 community version container on Docker in Synology DSM. Which source/tag should I use for this purpose?
The following source is the one I have been working with directly from Synology Docker:
https://hub.docker.com/_/odoo/
(Tag: Latest)
The only thing I have been able to do is creating a container for Odoo 12 enterprise, but not for Odoo 12 community.
Please advise.
Regards,
The official Odoo docker version is currently from date 2018-10-08 and it had a bug that showed incorrectly Enterprise version in Settings page also in Community version. So the good news is that you are in fact already running Community version. The bug was fixed in this commit.
The more complicated question is what version of docker image should you run. The official Odoo docker image (library/odoo or _/odoo or just odoo) does not get updated very frequently. It is not updated to fix issues. I would not recommend it for any other use than testing.
You can use other images that are updated more frequently and have static tags, e.g. I maintain an image with nightly Odoo builds. It is named veivaa/odoo. You can use a specific version of Odoo nightly build with tag version-date, e.g. veivaa/odoo:12.0-20181106. The nightly image can be found in Docker store at https://store.docker.com/community/images/veivaa/odoo. This version is updated on ”best effort” bases.
You find more information on running Odoo in Docker in my blog.
It is also not best practice with Docker to use the latest tag in production use or if you need to be able to keep the container stable. This is because you would get a different version depending on when you pull the image. Best practice is to either use a stable nonchanging tag, or build your own Dockerfile and image in own container registry.
I want to run Cloudera using a Docker image (specifically, the cloudera/quickstart image).
However, on Docker Hub I can only find beta versions:
https://hub.docker.com/r/cloudera/quickstart/tags/
What's the correct way of getting a more up-to-date image?
Should I just download a beta image and then install parcels? Would I do that using Docker Compose? If so, can I find instructions for that online?
Or is there a completely different way to solve this?
To run Cloudera Quickstart within Docker, follow the instructions on that page:
https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/quickstart_docker_container.html
Forget about your concerns regarding the "beta" tag. These tags are there, because the Docker image of Cloudera Quickstart is in beta mode. However, the CDH version in there is not.
You will find this out on your own, once you run the container and check the CDH version inside.
Are there any tools to install/deploy a docker image as a standalone/portable installation.
So that you don't have to install docker manually beforehand, just one installation, and it will run and deploy your docker image. And perhaps autostart it as well on boot.
Mainly interested for Win&OSX, but for linux would be nice too.
You can get a standalone Docker image automatically with preconfigured scaling options using the already packaged Docker engine. The details of this solution and its installation are described in the instruction.
I don't think that this is even possible. Docker has so many dependencies.
(Linux &/ OSX)
The much easier way would be a bash script wich starts the installation and afterwards runs the container. Shouldn't be that time consuming.
I have searched the history a little bit but failed to find a good answer. So I just asked my question here. If there is a good answer already, please redirect it for me. Thanks.
The question is, I found my company's new hire doc lists a bunch of software to install to setup the development environment. Usually it took 1 or 2 days for a new hire to setup everything ready for a new mac. We want to shorten that process. The first thing I thought is Docker.
I read through the user guide of Docker and followed some blogs regarding to how to setup dev environment using Docker but still a little confused if Docker applies to our setting. So here's the detail of requirements:
We need to install a bunch of software (many of them are customized binaries). Right now, we distribute the source code, a new hire need to build from the source code, install it and set environment to include the binary into path. I am wondering if Docker allows us to install customized binaries into it's container?
The source code should not stay in the container. The source code is still checked out in one's local machine using git. Then, how can I rely on the Docker container's environment to build my software? I have searched a little bit is that, you need to mount your folder into the container, and then shell into your container to build? Is that how it works?
We usually develop in mac, does Docker also support mac container or it just allows you to run Linux container using boot2Docker?
Thank you so much in advance for your help.
Some answers :)
First, I think it's a really good idea to use Docker to standardise the development configuration (softwares, custom packages, env variables, ...).
With Docker, you can get your customised binaries from the host, it's not a problem. With the CMD command, you can use bash to install them and add them into your PATH. You can also write a shell script to install all your stuff and launch this script when you build your container
Your code will be on the host and you can "mount" a host folder in your docker image with the -v command. Ex: docker run -v /home/user/code:/tmp/code your_image. I'll detail below how the developer will use your Docker image.
Yep, you have to use Boot2Docker, it works well
Once your development image will be ready, you have to publish it on the official Docker registry (or to host a local registry on your network).
Next, the developer will launch the following Docker command:
docker run -rm -ti your_build_image /bin/bash
This will launch a bash terminal in your Docker image and the developer will be able to compile the code. Ex: cd /tmp/code + mvn clean install
Please have a look to this article to learn about volumes: http://jam.sg/blog/mongodb-docker-part-2/
And this one about Dockerfile: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/docker-explained-using-dockerfiles-to-automate-building-of-images
You can also find a lot of Dockerfiles on github (search Dockerfile).
If the goal is to speed up the time it takes to get a Mac setup and usable in your environment, you might want to look at Boxen.
From the "About" section:
"Boxen is your team's IT robot. It's a dangerously opinionated framework that automates every piece of your development environment. GitHub, Inc. wrote the first version of Boxen (imaginatively called “The Setup”) to help employees start shipping on day one."