I like this idea.  I gave the branch a try and it was helpful in
identifying an issue in my local build environment b/c I could
treat the docker env as a pristine and known quantity.

In addition, I think this will make it easier for new contributors to get
up and running quickly testing-wise.

--Ted

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Marko Rodriguez <okramma...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> This is really neat. I'm not to hip to what Docker is all about so my
> realization of whats going on is a bit shaky. However, I do like these
> features:
>
>         1. I can continue to code, jump branches, build, etc. while an
> integration test is going on.
>         2. My test environment is no longer tied to my computer
> environment (e.g. Hadoop/Spark running, etc. blah. Painful).
>
> As I said in another thread, if we can get Spark Server going in our
> integration tests what would be huge for me. For instance, instead of
> always just "local[4]", we could also have it do "spark://localhost:7077"
> then there are lots of random nick nack bugs we will detect as local[4] and
> SparkServer don't always act the same. Moreover, I will be more inclined to
> clean up the <exclusion> insanity I have going on in giraph-/spark-gremlin
> pom.xmls cause I don't have to rely on manual testing.
>
> Thanks,
> Marko.
>
> http://markorodriguez.com
>
> On Mar 19, 2016, at 12:18 PM, Daniel Kuppitz <m...@gremlin.guru> wrote:
>
> >>
> >> I would think that test building in different environments is a good
> thing.
> >
> >
> > Makes sense for CI and it's easy to add new base containers. It's a one
> > line change:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-tinkerpop/blob/docker/docker/Dockerfile#L18
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Dylan Millikin <
> dylan.milli...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> This is awesome! Great work.
> >> I believe this could also be put to good use with CI. The one
> reservation I
> >> would have here is in regards to :
> >>
> >>> - same OS (ubuntu:trusty) for everybody; no matter if your local OS is
> >>>  Linux, OSX or Windows, the container will always run the tests on top
> >> of
> >>>  Ubuntu (no more *"your scripts don't work on my Mac"*)
> >>
> >> I would think that test building in different environments is a good
> thing.
> >> At least until we cover different envs in the CI.
> >>
> >> But other than that this is really cool. And you get extra cookies for
> >> Hadoop, that's awesome.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Dylan.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Daniel Kuppitz <m...@gremlin.guru>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> For the last 2 days I was working on some Docker containers that
> >>> will/should make our (devs) daily work a lot easier. Let's start with
> how
> >>> it currently looks:
> >>>
> >>> $ docker/build.sh -h
> >>>
> >>> Usage: build.sh [OPTIONS]
> >>> Build the current local TinkerPop project in a Docker container.
> >>>
> >>> Options are:
> >>>
> >>>    -t, --tests              run standard test suite
> >>>    -i, --integration-tests  run integration tests
> >>>    -n, --neo4j              include Neo4j
> >>>    -j, --java-docs          build Java docs
> >>>    -d, --docs               build user docs
> >>>    -h, --help               show this message
> >>>
> >>> The options should make it clear what it's good for. But to name a few
> >> more
> >>> advantages, especially for those, who are not too familiar with Docker:
> >>>
> >>>   - each build will be started in a clean environment (no old jar files
> >>>   that could mess up your test results)
> >>>   - you can continue to work on your code and don't have to worry about
> >>>   impacts on the tests that run inside the Docker container
> >>>   - same OS (ubuntu:trusty) for everybody; no matter if your local OS
> is
> >>>   Linux, OSX or Windows, the container will always run the tests on top
> >> of
> >>>   Ubuntu (no more *"your scripts don't work on my Mac"*)
> >>>   - you can start multiple builds in parallel
> >>>   - the build container will automatically install (and start if
> needed)
> >>>   the correct Hadoop version (defined in pom.xml); in the future we
> >> could
> >>> do
> >>>   the same for Spark Server
> >>>   - after building the docs, it will start a simple web server and give
> >>>   you the URL to view it (real http://, no file:/// crap)
> >>>
> >>> There's probably more, but I think that's impressive enough. The only
> >>> disadvantage is, that since each build starts in a clean environment,
> it
> >>> will always have to download all maven dependencies. However, I think
> all
> >>> the advantage compensate that little overhead.
> >>>
> >>> These changes are currently in branch docker/
> >>> <https://github.com/apache/incubator-tinkerpop/tree/docker> and could
> be
> >>> merged into master/ and tp31/ at any time. But, since this is a DISCUSS
> >>> thread, the question is: do people like it?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Daniel
> >>>
> >>
>
>

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