Please add dockerfile to main repo

[everyonce]

I'd like to be able to make codebase changes and duplicate what I'm getting from dockerhub with my changes.

[everyonce]

Also, I got the code for the current Dockerfile in my other issue I opened, but it gets binaries from a packages file that is not created by the build process. Can I get a little bit of help on the in-between steps for that?

[rkarthik007]

Sure thing @everyonce, forgot to add there sorry.

Two ways you could do this:

1. These are just the standard binaries available for download. So for example, if you're building linux container, you could just download from: https://docs.yugabyte.com/quick-start/install/#linux
2. Alternatively, you can build the latest package. Instructions on the github page (we will move this to our docs soon): https://github.com/YugaByte/yugabyte-db#building-yugabyte-code

You should have a tar.gz at the end of either of these steps which is what is being copied in this step:

COPY packages/yugabyte*.tar.gz /tmp
RUN tar -xvf /tmp/yugabyte*.tar.gz --strip 1

After this step, /home/yugabyte is assumed to contain the contents of the tar package (without the holding directory). In other words, you should see a bin directory so that next step works:

RUN bin/configure

Pasting the docker file here again for reference:

FROM centos:7
MAINTAINER YugaByte
ENV container=yugabyte-db

ENV YB_HOME=/home/yugabyte
WORKDIR $YB_HOME

COPY packages/yugabyte*.tar.gz /tmp
RUN tar -xvf /tmp/yugabyte*.tar.gz --strip 1
RUN bin/configure

# Expose the required ports.
EXPOSE 7000 7100 9000 9100 12000 11000 6379 9042 10100

# Create the data directories.
VOLUME ["/mnt/disk0", "/mnt/disk1"]

[rkarthik007]

Ah just saw your comment that you wanted to replicate your changes to the code base, so you probably want to go with option 2 (building the codebase). cc @mbautin

[everyonce]

Thanks for the answer. I've run the build successfully (and put in a PR for missing packages needed), and it doesn't produce any tar files. It does create files like the configure file in the /bin directory, but no tar files, so I'm not sure how to build those like the Dockerfile is expecting.
Thanks!

[bmatican]

Hey @everyonce , you can try running ./yb_release --edition ce. Assuming that works, it will generate a .tar.gz in the expected format and print out the path to it.

I've also filed #107 to simplify the args, so you wouldn't need the --edition ce part.

[everyonce]

This works, thanks!!