[PATCH v3 5/6] Allow use of Docker for development

Stephen Finucane stephenfinucane at hotmail.com
Sun Aug 21 05:27:34 AEST 2016


On 14 Aug 00:31, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> On 09 Aug 14:27, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> > This makes it possible to use Docker and docker-compose for development
> > as an alternative to Vagrant.
> > 
> > I quite liked vagrant a couple of years ago, but currently:
> > 
> >  * Trying to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu wants me to disable
> >    Secure Boot, and I don't want to do that.
> > 
> >  * Trying to use the libvirt plugin for vagrant requires I pick
> >    from a very small set of possible images, and requires that I
> >    install the upstream vagrant rather than the vagrant shipped
> >    with Ubuntu 16.04
> > 
> >  * I find docker containers faster to work with and more transparent.
> > 
> > So I've done the work to make docker work for Patchwork development.
> > This doesn't break or in any way interfere with using Vagrant, it just
> > provides an alternative.
> > 
> > It includes support for headless selenium tests using Chromium.
> 
> Excellent work. I've a couple of minor requests below, then we're good
> to go I think.

Actually, I'll fix all of these (except for tabs-spaces) in follow-up patches.
Thanks very much :)

Reviewed-by: Stephen Finucane <stephenfinucane at hotmail.com>


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