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Docker apps is a thing I've been dreaming of for a while. When I was in university, I used to love testing new software but I hated the fact that it left stuff
by ohstopitu 10y ago
Docker apps is a thing I've been dreaming of for a while.
When I was in university, I used to love testing new software but I hated the fact that it left stuff behind after un-installs.
So I was on the other extreme and tried to only install stuff I always used and the rest was always inside docker containers. Infact that's exactly how I develop too (I run a PHP container for work related stuff, and a nodeJS container for my side projects).
I've always been meaning to try launching GUI apps via docker - it's one of the few things that has stopped me from getting into other languages like C/Go etc - because IDEs generally require the complier and other stuff to be installed on your host system (or a plethora of hacks to get it to on remote properly).
- PuffinBlue 10y agoI've only looked very briefly at this in the past, but isn't this what Ubuntu (via snapcraft.io[0]) is trying to do with Snaps? I might have misread it with only a cursory glance but it looks similar. [0] http://snapcraft.io/ http://snapcraft.io/
- eikenberry 10y agoSnap does most of it. But a snap app would still leave behind any config files/dot files it created where a dockerized version wouldn't.
- ohstopitu 10y agoSnap has had some weird issues in the past! and it does leave behind files every now and then (especially if you look into your .config folder I think).
- jjuel 10y agoCheck some of her stuff out on the Docker hub. She has a ton of dockerfiles for running any sort of app you want in a container.