Tag and build multiple versions
darkdragon-001 opened this issue · 5 comments
I often stumble over some software which worked in a previous version. x11docker could be a great tool to test in which version it stopped working. Therefore, it would be nice, if you could tag versions (e.g. x11docker/xfce:4-buster for Xfce 4 on Debian Buster) and publish them on hub.docker.com.
Thank you for your suggestion!
I would not like to maintain multiple tags for this (or all) desktop images.
At least I have to rebuild them every few month to keep them half-way up to date with security fixes.
If you like to test applications with different Debian versions, you can build images directly based e.g. on debian:buster or debian:stretch and would not need Xfce.
If you like to test with different Xfce versions, it might be better to build images that directly provide several Xfce versions. Debian only provides a subset of Xfce versions depending on the Debian release cycle.
In hub.docker.com, you can define Build triggers which is an HTTP/POST endpoint which you just have to call (e.g. via curl) to trigger a rebuild. So building images is as easy as setting up a cronjob...
I would like to start right away, with a base image including all common dependencies (especially GUI libraries which are not included in default images). Usually, I just do docker run -it --rm ubuntu:VERSION and in container I install dependencies and run the application. But for GUI applications I need the GUI dependencies which take some time to install and all the forwarding has to be setup. I just thought it might be easier to use x11docker for that...
In hub.docker.com, you can define Build triggers which is an HTTP/POST endpoint which you just have to call (e.g. via curl) to trigger a rebuild. So building images is as easy as setting up a cronjob...
Thank you for the hint! I'll look at that.
But for GUI applications I need the GUI dependencies which take some time to install and all the forwarding has to be setup. I just thought it might be easier to use x11docker for that...
Couldn't you just set up a tagged docker hub repo yourself?
Take e.g. the x11docker/xfce Dockerfile, adjust it and set up a repo with several tags matching your needs. It might be based on several Debian versions as well as other distros like alpine, too.
In hub.docker.com, you can define Build triggers which is an HTTP/POST endpoint which you just have to call (e.g. via curl) to trigger a rebuild. So building images is as easy as setting up a cronjob...
Thank you for the hint! I'll look at that.
This was working for me.
But for GUI applications I need the GUI dependencies which take some time to install and all the forwarding has to be setup. I just thought it might be easier to use x11docker for that...
Couldn't you just set up a tagged docker hub repo yourself?
Take e.g. thex11docker/xfceDockerfile, adjust it and set up a repo with several tags matching your needs. It might be based on several Debian versions as well as other distros like alpine, too.
This is what I did 😉 Feel free to try it out!
multi-tag with diff desktops, try this:
docker run -it --rm -p 10081:10081 -p 10089:10089 \
--tmpfs /run --tmpfs /run/lock --tmpfs /tmp \
--cap-add SYS_BOOT --cap-add SYS_ADMIN \
-v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup \
infrastlabs/docker-headless:gnome/plas/cinna/cmate/cxfcenoVnc http://192.168.0.x:10081 pw: headless