+1 Great feature that should help with complicated error cases.
> On 11 Sep 2018, at 03:39, Henning Rohde <hero...@google.com> wrote:
>
> +1 Nice proposal. It will help eradicate some of the inflexibility and
> frustrations with Jenkins.
>
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 2:30 PM Yifan Zou <yifan...@google.com
> <mailto:yifan...@google.com>> wrote:
> Thank you all for making comments on this and I apologize for the late reply.
>
> To clarify the concerns of testing locally, it is still able to run tests
> without Docker. One of the purposes of this is to create an identical
> environment as we are running in Jenkins that would be helpful to reproduce
> strange errors. Contributors could choose starting a container and run tests
> in there, or just run tests directly.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 6:37 AM Ismaël Mejía <ieme...@gmail.com
> <mailto:ieme...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> BIG +1, the previous work on having docker build images [1] had a
> similar goal (to have a reproducible build environment). But this is
> even better because we will guarantee the exact same environment in
> Jenkins as well as any further improvements. It is important to
> document the setup process as part of this (for future maintenance +
> local reproducibility).
>
> Just for clarification this is independent of running the tests
> locally without docker, it is more to improve the reproducibility of
> the environment we have on jenkins locally for example to address some
> weird Heissenbug.
>
> I just added BEAM-5311 to track the removal of the docker build images
> when this is ready (of course if there are no objections to this
> proposal).
>
> [1] https://beam.apache.org/contribute/docker-images/
> <https://beam.apache.org/contribute/docker-images/>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 3:58 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net
> <mailto:j...@nanthrax.net>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > That's interesting, however, it's really important to still be able to
> > easily run test locally, without any VM/Docker required. It should be
> > activated by profile or so.
> >
> > Regards
> > JB
> >
> > On 27/08/2018 19:53, Yifan Zou wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a proposal for creating a reproducible environment for Jenkins
> > > tests by using docker container. The thing is, the environment
> > > configurations on Beam Jenkins slaves are sometimes different from
> > > developer's machines. Test failures on Jenkins may not be easy to
> > > reproduce locally. Also, it is not convenient for developers to add or
> > > modify underlying tools installed on Jenkins VMs, since they're managed
> > > by Apache Infra. This proposal is aimed to address those problems.
> > >
> > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y0YuQj_oZXC0uM5-gniG7r9-5gv2uiDhzbtgYYJW48c/edit#heading=h.bg2yi0wbhl9n
> > >
> > > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y0YuQj_oZXC0uM5-gniG7r9-5gv2uiDhzbtgYYJW48c/edit#heading=h.bg2yi0wbhl9n>
> > >
> > > Any comments are welcome. Thank you.
> > >
> > > Regards.
> > > Yifan
> > >
> >
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> > Jean-Baptiste Onofré
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