Dockerized Development on Ubuntu

These instructions are meant for advanced users, and currently do not include all steps to copy-and-paste. These instructions apply to Ubuntu as the base image. These instructions create a Ubuntu Docker container ready for building, testing and running Ignition.

Install tools

An off-the-shelf Docker container for development of Ignition is not available. ignition-tooling/gzdev provides tooling to build such a container for you. The following tools are required to be installed on the host machine:

1. git - If not already installed consider Ubuntu Binary Install

2. Docker - If not already installed consider Ubuntu Source Install

3. gzdev - ignition-tooling/gzdev

4. vcstool - dirk-thomas/vcstool

Using gzdev ign-docker-env

Detailed instructions are available in the gzdev repository.

High level instructions:

1. Create a workspace with the source to mount into a container using vcstool

2. Use gzdev ign-docker-env to build and start a container with --vol pointing to the previously created workspace

3. See Ubuntu Source Install section on building for instructions to work with a source install

4. Consider Contributing

Troubleshooting

See Troubleshooting