Official docker image

[bitphage]

I think we need to build and maintain official docker image for the project. Docker image is an easy and unified way to try the software and deploy onto VPS.

[thehapax]

agreed. sending a link to permie since i don't know what his github username is

[g3d]

Hi guys, t.me/Don_Gabriel from Bitshares DEXbot chat build an initial docker image & shared it with me.

We've agreed to work together on next scope of improvements in fork of this repo:

• Add README for dockerhub with description how to run it & how to mount uptick/dexbot-cli config folders
• extract version to ENV variable with some defaults, so we can easily re-build upgraded version without change single line of code if needed
• update ENV to prevent crashes due to lack of locales variables
• update PATH, so no need to use ~/.local/bin prefix
• run as non-root user
• connect CI pipeline so it can build & distribute docker images (to https://hub.docker.com/u/dexbot) automatically during dexbot release tag push

After this is done, we will send PR back to this repo.

@thehapax @bitfag feel free to tell us about other points if we missed anything.

P.S. I think we can assign this to me & add milestone

[bitphage]

We didn't started 2019 development yet, so there is no established workflow. @PermieBTS please take a look.

[gabev]

Regarding the docker DEXBot Cli image ...just pushed a new image to the docker hub tonight ...now ENV for LC and LANG works and also created an user dexbot with password dexbot and added to sudoers and set the WORKDIR to DEXBot-0.9.5 ... image is based on Ubuntu 18.04

[thehapax]

Ok I will discuss with Permie and then see if we can get this task assigned to you @g3d @PermieBTS

[thehapax]

@PermieBTS can we get @g3d added as a contributor?

[g3d]

@PermieBTS why closed?

[PermieBTS]

My understanding from gabriel was the docker was sufficient.
Apologies, ive re-opened

[bitphage]

As users have issues installing dexbot (#565), and we do not have automatic installation test which tests the HOWTO, I want to pay attention to this issue. What I want to do:

• Refactor Dockerfile from [WIP] Official docker image #439 (already done locally)
• Enable automatic build of docker image using Travis CI for test purposes
• Enable automatic build of docker images at the Docker Hub side for master and devel branches

[bitphage]

#439 merged.