ACS Docker

In this repo, we develop collectively a basic Dockerfile, to hopefully serve a dual purpose:

• be useful for beginners to try out ACS
• serve as living/executable documentation

Releases & Images

This github repository is connected to a docker.hub project at https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/dneise/acs_test so that whenever a new release is made in this repo, docker hub auto-magically builds a new docker image for you to use.

We hope this image might be useful for you.

Living Documentation?

There is very nice documentation on how to build ACS from source on https://confluence.alma.cl, but it has happened at some point in the past, that this documentation was outdated and/or not complete. By providing a Dockerfile, which is built for every release, we hope to make sure that the Dockerfile itself is correct, in the sense that it is syntactically correct as well as it creates a workable ACS build.

Since building ACS on your laptop can take a long while, we thought it'd be nice if pulling a docker image and trying it out before actually executing the build would be a nice experience.

Of course, in order to understand the Dockerfile, one might need some introduction. So we tried to document each line in the Dockfile for you.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

In order to use this repo, you should install:

• Docker : For building and run the docker image
• git: For cloning the repo
• git-lfs : This is needed because ACS repo keeps larger files that are served with this system. Hopefully, we will remove this in the future.

Once you have the aforementioned prerequisites, clone the repo like this:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dneise/acs_test acs_docker

NOTE: This command should also clone the ACS repo. If this not happen, once the ACS Docker repo is cloned, checkout the develop branch: (This might take a while)

cd acs_docker
git checkout develop

And update the submodule:

git submodule update --init

Building the docker image

docker build -t alma/acs .

Deployment

docker run --rm -it --name=acs alma/acs

If you want to compile your ACS module inside the docker container, create a docker volume that binds the path of your machine into a folder called /test for example:

docker run --rm -it \
   -v $PWD:/test \
   -w /test \
   alma/acs

If you need to receive the graphical interface from the container:

docker run --rm -it \
   -u $UID \
   -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY \
   -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:rw \
   -v $PWD:/test \
   -w /test \
   alma/acs

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details