/docker-protobuf

All inclusive Protocol Buffer and gRPC suite, powered by Docker and Alpine

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Protocol Buffers + Docker

All inclusive protoc suite, powered by Docker and Alpine Linux.

What's included:

  • protobuf 3.4.1
  • gRPC 1.6.1
  • Google Well Known Types are automatically included (via google/)
  • Go related tools compiled with 1.8.1, gRPC support is built-in:
    • github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
    • github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gofast
    • github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo
    • github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogofast
    • github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogofaster
    • github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogoslick
    • github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/protoc-gen-swagger
    • github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/protoc-gen-grpc-gateway

Supported languages

  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • Java / JavaNano (Android)
  • JavaScript
  • Objective-C
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Go
  • Swift 4
  • Rust

Usage

$ docker run --rm znly/protoc --help
Usage: /usr/bin/protoc [OPTION] PROTO_FILES

Don't forget you need to bind mount your files:

$ docker run --rm -v $(pwd):$(pwd) -w $(pwd) znly/protoc --python_out=. -I. myfile.proto

Google Well Known Types

They are embedded in the image and are included by protoc automatically. They accessible via google/protobuf/:

syntax = "proto3";

import "google/protobuf/timestamp.proto";
import "google/protobuf/duration.proto";

Gogo

gogo.proto is embedded in the image and can be included with:

syntax = "proto3";

import "github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto/gogo.proto";

Image Size

The current image is about ~130mb and one layer. Most the space is spent on Go tools. All the binaries are UPX'ed. Including the Swift stdlib.