[taste-users] Docker containers are now a fully supported option for TASTE-based development

[Thanassis.Tsiodras@xxxxxxx]

Dear all,

After some final
work performed over the weekend, I am pleased to report that the much-requested
Docker-based workflow is now officially a part of TASTE. You can read the
details in the relevant section of the README in the master repo ( https://gitrepos.estec.esa.int/taste/taste-setup/blob/master/README.md
) - but as an executive summary:

- If you don't
trust the TASTE VM because your company's security people "are
unsure about what is inside it"
- If you can't
use the TASTE VM because your attached device's device drivers don't work
properly inside a Virtual Machine
- If you prefer
a native install but use a non-Debian distribution, so can't build TASTE
without replacing all the Debian-isms
- If you want
to work inside a 64bit Linux distribution

...then go ahead
and process the Dockerfile with...

   
$ git clone https://gitrepos.estec.esa.int/taste/taste-setup.git
tool-src
   
$ cd tool-src
   
$ docker build -t taste . # notice the DOT at the end

...and launch
the Docker container with:

   
$ ./Docker-run.sh

This script does
all the necessary setup to map your local X11 socket inside the container,
allowing you to use X11 applications. In addition, your $HOME folder is
mapped inside the container under the /root/work folder, so any work you
do in there will survive the container's eventual closing. The Docker container
has privileged access to all devices, so it can run any device driver you
would run in the host just as well. 

Of course, as
with all Docker containers, you can also commit the changes you perform
in your container (via docker commit...) and create your own customized
images. But even if you don't, the /root/work folder from inside the container
shows your host's $HOME folder - any changes you do there are done in the
host, so they will survive the container's shutdown.

As ever, if you
find any issues, don't hesitate to report it back to us (taste-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
- with patches and/or PRs in the git repositories always most welcome!
:-)

Kind regards,
Thanassis.


Thanassis
Tsiodras
Real-time Embedded
Software Engineer 
System, Software
and Technology Department

ESTEC
Keplerlaan 1,
PO Box 299
NL-2200 AG Noordwijk,
The Netherlands
Thanassis.Tsiodras@xxxxxxx
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