Containers

General purpose container images for testing things across different Linux distributions.

Building

Use the makefile targets to build the images. For example, to build all of the container images:

make all

Running

FZF Quick Launch Function

I recommend adding the following function to ~/.bashrc or similar.

It will bring up an interactive fzf prompt to select from the available images and then automatically run whatever is selected.

When the container is run, the current working directory on the host will be mounted into the container as a volume at the same path and set as the working directory inside of the container. The container is run as the user that was created with the same name, uid, and gid when the image was built so there should be no issues with file permissions when modifying files in the volume inside of the container.

function dr() {
    local images selected_image shell

    images="$(docker image ls | grep -E "$(id -un)" | awk '{print $1}')"
    if [ -z "$images" ]; then
        yell "No container images found"
        return 1
    fi

    selected_image="$(echo "$images" | fzf)"
    if [ -z "$selected_image" ]; then
        return 0
    fi

    echo "Running container: $selected_image"
    docker run \
        -it \
        --name "$selected_image" \
        --hostname "$selected_image" \
        -u "$(id -un)" \
        -v "$(pwd):$(pwd)" \
        -w "$(pwd)" \
        --rm \
        "$selected_image" \
        bash
}

Manually Running

See available containers using the list makefile target:

make list

Run the container:

docker run \
    -it \
    -u "$(id -un)" \
    -v "$(pwd):$(pwd)" \
    -w "$(pwd)" \
    "$(id -un)-ubuntu-22.04" \
    bash