alphagov/govuk-docker

Unable to specify stacks that don't have `app-` prefix

ChrisBAshton opened this issue · 3 comments

ChrisBAshton commented

E.g. govuk-content-schemas:

$govuk-docker startup
Unknown stack: app.

Available stacks:

lite


$govuk-docker startup lite

Unknown stack: app-lite.

Available stacks:

lite

Have tried passing --stack=lite which used to work but has now been removed from govuk-docker.

thomasleese commented

This is intentional, albeit slightly confusing. If the service doesn't have an app- prefixed stack, then it can't be run using the startup command. Instead you would use the normal run command.

This is to make a distinction between apps where "starting up" is meaningful (such as a web application) and apps where this makes less sense (such as the content schemas).

The error message could definitely be improved though...

ChrisBAshton commented

Cool, thanks for explaining 👍 perhaps we can check if an app has no app- prefixed stacks, and throw a more helpful error message if the dev tries running startup.

benthorner commented

I think we can close this issue, now that #216 is merged. The original problem was the CLI output is misleading, but we no longer have a CLI!

@ChrisBAshton that OK with you?

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