Build scripts to build and manage Rakudo/Perl 6 docker images.
./build -v <version> -r [rakudo|rakudo-star]
[-d <debian_release>] [-f <image_name>] [-t <tag>]
-r - Type of rakudo build.
'rakudo-star' is one of the Rakduo stable releases.
'rakudo' is one of the monthly builds.
-v - Version of Rakudo to build e.g. 2017-06
-n - Name to be given to the image. e.g. myfoo/rakudo-star
-t - Tag to apply to the image. e.g. latest
-f - Parent image (FROM) to use as base
-d - Debian release to use. e.g. 'jessie', 'stretch', 'buster', etc
This chooses an appropriate parent image as well as set the release
within the container environment.
e.g.
$ ./build -r rakudo -v 2017-06
...
$ docker images | grep -iE 'IMAGE ID|rakudo'
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
shalomb/rakudo 2017.06 98cd7c20843b 3 mins ago 378MB
shalomb/rakudo 20170628T181702 98cd7c20843b 3 mins ago 378MB
shalomb/rakudo latest 98cd7c20843b 3 mins ago 378MB
shalomb/rakudo 20170628T181505 9d18b25a2a8c 4 hours ago 374MB
shalomb/rakudo 20170628T181253 d38edd736744 4 hours ago 369MB
...
./run shalomb/rakudo:2017.06 perl6 -e '.say for 0..10'
These scripts cater to the build and management of a catalogue of Rakudo / Perl 6 docker images of different versions.
./build builds a Rakudo Debian-based docker image with
the zef module manager and a few other utilities
to make the image usable with Debian (and related) expectations - e.g. beside a
regular Debian host install. (Alpine Linux may be cool but it is deficient
for non-production use-cases where you often need access to the wider GNU/Linux
ecosystem).
As ./build takes a rakudo version to build - it is possible to create/maintain
docker images for different versions of Rakudo - making switching between
versions trivial. This can be useful in learning, dev/test, etc environments.
./run instantiates a docker instance that is run in the same PID space as the
host with appropriate volumes mounted making interactions with the host
transparent. i.e. running a containerized rakudo against code on the host
is as trivial as
(docker host) $ ./run shalomb/rakudo:2017.06 perl6 $PWD/../path/to/script.p6
- Manage zef module installations on a shared volume?