First version of dockerizing metacpan-web

[bessarabov]

This is just an experiment. It works, but it should be well tested.

If you will accept this PR, the next good step is to create automatic build images — https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/builds/

The task I'm trying to acieve is to create my own darkpan instance and dockerizing metacpan-web makes this task much simpler.

[oalders]

Sounds good to me. Anyone else have thoughts?

[ranguard]

Nice thing to have, but unless we are officially supporting it (and I think we have enough to do already) then I don't think it should be in this repo.

We could have a separate docker repo though, with a readme explaining it is experimental?

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Sounds good to me. Anyone else have thoughts?

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[bessarabov]

Nice thing to have, but unless we are officially supporting it (and I think we have enough to do already) then I don't think it should be in this repo.

I agree that this change should not make your life harder.

We could have a separate docker repo though, with a readme explaining it is experimental?

I did the sample repo: https://github.com/bessarabov/metacpan-web-docker

But I think that the best place for Dockerfile is in the official repo. Even that this feature is highly experimental, to make things simpler it is better to place Dockerfile here. I've updated this PR and added some text to README.md that explains this.

[oalders]

That's helpful. Is it also possible to add an "experimental, see README" comment to the Dockerfile itself?

[bessarabov]

That's helpful. Is it also possible to add an "experimental, see README" comment to the Dockerfile itself?

Good point. Done in 9b68fd1

[ranguard]

I'd prefer for us (so in CPAN-API) to have a metacpan-docker repo, with web, elasticsearch, api directories in there and the Docker files in each. This would sort of match the metacpan-puppet, which is ultimately about deployment of the various components.

Happy to set this up if there is interest?

[ranguard]

Hi @bessarabov,

I've just invited you to: https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-docker (you have write access there).

Please create a metacpan-web/Dockerfile in there, later we could have cpan-api/Dockerfile and maybe even a elasticsearch/Dockerfile if you want to go that far.

Once you've got things going we can then link to the docker repo from other places to let people know it exists.

A side note, if things start getting complicated for the Docker instances (and more importantly if they are likely to get out of step with our puppet configurations) we could easily look at adding some stuff to metacpan-puppet to be part of the docker setup.

Closing this pull for now as further discussions can be in the metacpan-docker repo

[bessarabov]

@ranguard Thank you!