[Galene] Re: Docker image

[Jeroen van Veen <jvanveen@protonmail.com>]

Hi Antonin,

Thanks for the detailed description! I'll give it a try with
the golang base-image instead.

cheers,

Jeroen


‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
Op maandag, december 28, 2020 10:21 AM, Antonin Décimo <antonin.decimo@gmail.com> schreef:

> Hi!
>
> If your image is using a pre-compiled version of Galène, you’ll lack
> portability across distributions and architectures. You should build
> Galène and run it inside the Dockerfile. You could even use a layered
> Dockerfile so that Galène is build in one image, then copied in the
> second image and run from there.
>
> Starting from scratch is a bad idea.
>
> I’d use instead the Golang Docker image. It is well documented:
>
> https://hub.docker.com/_/golang
>
> A simple workflow would be to have the Dockerfile inside the Galène
> repo and use the example Dockerfile:
>
> FROM golang:1.15
>
> WORKDIR /go/src/galene
> COPY . .
>
> RUN go get -d -v ./...
> RUN go install -v ./...
>
> CMD ["galene"]
>
> Or you could build a "self-hosting" Dockerfile that download the
> package and its dependencies itself (this one is untested, I don't
> have the bandwidth right now):
>
> FROM golang:1.15
>
> WORKDIR /go/src/galene
> COPY data groups static ./
>
> RUN go get -d -v github.com/jech/galene
> RUN go install -v github.com/jech/galene
>
> CMD ["galene"]
>
> The Golang project provides images for Linux, Windows, macOS, and
> various architectures that you can use as base images.
>
> Once an image is build, it is not portable to other systems or
> architectures; but the build script (the Dockerfile) may be portable.
> For Windows, nanoserver is the lightest image, windowsservercore is a
> bit more featured.
>
> -- Antonin
>
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