Hi,
There has been some discussion regarding Docker and OFBiz, however no
consensus yet.
I'm starting this thread after discussions on Slack with Jacques Le
Roux, Daniel Watford and Michael Brohl.
The the aim to establish some goals / objectives regarding Docker and OFBiz.
Please add your feedback, comments and suggestions.
Prior work regarding this is found
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10407
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r40fd679818a37e113b469add51755b1097a2b02d3961e71a2cfe928d%40%3Cdev.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
and in the links stemming from the links above.
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== How can we integrate Docker in OFBiz ?
Docker can be used in two distinct ways:
a. Use Docker as a way to build OFBiz components - this will make builds
more portable - as long as people have Docker (or containerd or podman)
installed locally, they will be able to build OFBiz "for sure" (tm).
This aims to solve the issue of people not having the proper JDK and
required tools installed (gradle, git ?! etc).
b. Use Docker to deploy OFBiz for production purposes (and demos)
IMO this means building a slim Docker image with only JRE and OFBiz + a
custom selection of plugins. IMO this is best achieved with pre-built,
published binaries for ofbiz.
c. Use Docker to develop / debug OFBiz
I'm not sure if this is really a thing since IMO falls into b).
Using docker multi stage image builds is something that could help.
The goals are sometimes at odds with one another in the sense that doing
something to fix a goal will hinder the other.
Do you see other use-cases for Docker and OFBiz?
== My personal take
Personally I would like to focus on b). I did not have good experience
with building sources with Docker - I could not get used to the workflow.
Also when I deploy to production, I don't really care how it's built as
long as I have the binary and I can run just that.
So we might end up with two or more Dockerfiles, each focusing on
specific objectives.
Regards,
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Eugen Stan
+40720 898 747 / netdava.com
