STRONG +1 here as an end user. Having a solid tested reference implementation would save man years of time in development, testing, and deployment especially for small teams that are weak in the devops department.
I started playing with this but it’s a back burner project right now. A proper set of docker images and a reference docker compose architecture based around Postgres would be ideal going forward. Then SOLR could also be managed as a docker image. One of the biggest new user pain points for ofbiz is figuring out how to switch the database to a real dbms. We could then just drop support for derby as the only reason it’s there is that it supposedly saves time for testing ofbiz. Docker Postgres solves that problem and is the clear standard for open source databases now. Making docker ofbiz the standard starting point also eliminates all the cross platform java headaches which I see at lest a post or two a week about. It would also accelerate adoption, development, and save everyone money long term as it makes it super easy to fire up and iterate ofbiz. —P > On May 17, 2018, at 1:42 AM, Taher Alkhateeb <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We need to think and discuss this otherwise I'm not quite sure how much > value people would get from having a docker image. I don't have two docker > files that are identical for the projects we work on because of > customizations and differences. > > So to create a docker image you might want to think of some things like: > - what is it used for? Demo purpose? Will it allow loading different data > readers? > - should you allow loading different databases with an accompanying > docker-compose script in the documentation of the image? > - what options / flags should you add to docker image? > - where should we keep the source? > - should we version ofbiz images like is done in some other images? > - how should we structure the volumes for framework and gradle cache? > > So I think more details are needed here. > >> On Thu, May 17, 2018, 9:10 AM Arun Patidar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> +1 >> >> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:33 AM, deepak nigam <[email protected] >>> >> wrote: >> >>> +1. >>> >>> Please let me know if I can be of any help in this effort. >>> >>> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 8:59 AM, innate Genius <[email protected] >>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> +1 >>>> >>>>> On 17-May-2018, at 8:26 AM, Hans Bakker <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Good morning, >>>>> >>>>> Shouldn't we provide a official docker image in hub.docker.com as >> most >>>> open source projects do? >>>>> >>>>> This could ease the installation of ofbiz, even with including the >>>> dependencies which is possible with gradle >3.5 >>>>> >>>>> To already prepare, I reserved the ofbiz username . >>>>> >>>>> more info at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10407 >>>>> >>>>> opinions? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Hans Bakker >>>>> CEO, http://antwebsystems.com >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Best regards, >> >> Arun Patidar >> Director of Information SystemsHotWax Commerce <http://www.hotwax.co/> >>
