Thank you for doing this.

I have seen a few related PRs. Connecting them here in case these efforts
could be combined:
- https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/12837 (/cc +Omar Ismail
<omarism...@google.com> )
- https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/13308

Ahmet

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 2:53 PM Sam Rohde <sro...@google.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I got tired of my local dev environment being ruined by updates so I made
> a container for Apache Beam development work. What this does is create a
> Docker container from the Ubuntu Groovy image and load it up with all the
> necessary libraries/utilities for Apache Beam development. Then I run an
> interactive shell in the Docker container where I do my work.
>
> This is a nice way for new contributors to easily get started. However
> with the container in its current form, I don't know if this will help
> other people because it is tied closely with my workflow (using VIM,
> YouCompleteMe, for Python). But I think it can be a nice starting point for
> improvements. For example:
>
>    - Sharing the host display with Docker to start GUI applications (like
>    IntelliJ) in the container
>    - Adding Golang development support
>
> Here's a draft PR <https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/13430>, let me
> know what you think, how it can be improved, and whether it's a good idea
> for us to have a dev container like this.
>
> Regards,
> Sam
>
>

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