digitalmars.D - What's our container story?
- Lance Bachmeier (15/15) Jun 10 With Apple's [Containerization announcement
- Dukc (9/24) Jun 10 [Kaj Nackes
- Sergey (7/10) Jun 10 Previously there was most up-to-date repo from China:
- laserovsky (13/28) Jun 18 I've been maintaining a Docker image for DMD for a while now:
- Ki (6/21) Jul 15 I also recently tried building [docker
- 0xEAB (13/16) Jul 22 Unfortunately, the semi-release schedule of upstream project(s)
- 0xEAB (6/8) Jul 22 That said, up-to-date Containerfiles — aka Dockerfiles — are
With Apple's [Containerization announcement yesterday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQtvbhtXmo) and GitHub Codespaces running Linux containers, it appears the container thing is a big deal. I admit I don't know a lot about them beyond playing with Docker a few years back. Looking at Docker Hub, I see there is an organization called dlangdockerized that makes semi-recent releases of DMD and LDC available. Do we have any getting started documentation available, and do we provide any other containers (for instance, to do web development)? I plan to use GitHub Codespaces for a class I'm teaching next semester. It would sure be nice to have some guidance on getting things up and running. This seems to be the extent of the documentation: `docker pull dlangdockerized/dmd` and then the user is on their own to figure out the rest.
Jun 10
Dukc <ajieskola gmail.com> On Tuesday, 10 June 2025 at 15:10:15 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:With Apple's [Containerization announcement yesterday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQtvbhtXmo) and GitHub Codespaces running Linux containers, it appears the container thing is a big deal. I admit I don't know a lot about them beyond playing with Docker a few years back. Looking at Docker Hub, I see there is an organization called dlangdockerized that makes semi-recent releases of DMD and LDC available. Do we have any getting started documentation available, and do we provide any other containers (for instance, to do web development)? I plan to use GitHub Codespaces for a class I'm teaching next semester. It would sure be nice to have some guidance on getting things up and running. This seems to be the extent of the documentation: `docker pull dlangdockerized/dmd` and then the user is on their own to figure out the rest.[Kaj Nackes post](https://dlang.org/blog/2019/03/14/containerize-your-d- erver-application/) on our official blog is probably the best starting point. Personally, I use Nix to build my docker containers. I don't have to know much about Docker, in fact I've never written a dockerfile! I also get extremely small containers since Nix will only put what really is needed to the container. No base OS image needed! It does mean you have to learn Nix and most likely also [Lionellos dub2nix](https://github.com/lionello/dub2nix).
Jun 10
On Tuesday, 10 June 2025 at 15:10:15 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:running. This seems to be the extent of the documentation: `docker pull dlangdockerized/dmd` and then the user is on their own to figure out the rest.Previously there was most up-to-date repo from China: https://github.com/dlangchina/docker-dlang/tree/master But now dlangdockertized is handled by Elias and Jonas - I would say should be recommended image for usage. As usual DLF doesn’t care about production level things, but at least we have some heroes in community :)
Jun 10
On Tuesday, 10 June 2025 at 15:10:15 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:With Apple's [Containerization announcement yesterday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQtvbhtXmo) and GitHub Codespaces running Linux containers, it appears the container thing is a big deal. I admit I don't know a lot about them beyond playing with Docker a few years back. Looking at Docker Hub, I see there is an organization called dlangdockerized that makes semi-recent releases of DMD and LDC available. Do we have any getting started documentation available, and do we provide any other containers (for instance, to do web development)? I plan to use GitHub Codespaces for a class I'm teaching next semester. It would sure be nice to have some guidance on getting things up and running. This seems to be the extent of the documentation: `docker pull dlangdockerized/dmd` and then the user is on their own to figure out the rest.I've been maintaining a Docker image for DMD for a while now: 🔗 https://hub.docker.com/r/starxen/dmd It supports both Linux-based containers (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE) and Windows containers. I'm trying to follow the same standards as the official Docker images like PHP or Node.js – aiming for clarity, modularity, and best practices. The image is kept up to date with the latest DMD versions. You'll find links to the documentation, GitLab repo, CI pipeline history, and more in the description. If you're using Docker and DMD – feel free to try it out and share any feedback 🙂
Jun 18
On Tuesday, 10 June 2025 at 15:10:15 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:With Apple's [Containerization announcement yesterday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQtvbhtXmo) and GitHub Codespaces running Linux containers, it appears the container thing is a big deal. I admit I don't know a lot about them beyond playing with Docker a few years back. Looking at Docker Hub, I see there is an organization called dlangdockerized that makes semi-recent releases of DMD and LDC available. Do we have any getting started documentation available, and do we provide any other containers (for instance, to do web development)? I plan to use GitHub Codespaces for a class I'm teaching next semester. It would sure be nice to have some guidance on getting things up and running. This seems to be the extent of the documentation: `docker pull dlangdockerized/dmd` and then the user is on their own to figure out the rest.I also recently tried building [docker images](https://hub.docker.com/r/kirillsaidov/dlang) for D tool chain. Implemented [Dockerfiles](https://github.com/kirillsaidov/dlang-docker) for both DMD and LDC2 compilers using `ubuntu:24.04` as base image.
Jul 15
On Tuesday, 10 June 2025 at 15:10:15 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:Looking at Docker Hub, I see there is an organization called dlangdockerized that makes semi-recent releases of DMD and LDC available.Unfortunately, the semi-release schedule of upstream project(s) makes things a bit semi-plannable ^^ I was looking forward to pre-build and push container images for the latest DMD release after the corresponding LDC release. Which eventually happened only a few weeks before what would have been the “approximate release date” of a future DMD release. Furthermore, I was also excited for a certain patch update of DMD to be released which hasn’t happened either (yet). Please note that I’m only trying to explain why there hasn’t been a container image release. I do *not* want to shift blame to upstream maintainers; they have valid reasons that justify the current situation.
Jul 22
On Tuesday, 22 July 2025 at 21:16:02 UTC, 0xEAB wrote:I was looking forward to pre-build and push container images for the latest […]That said, up-to-date Containerfiles — aka Dockerfiles — are available: <https://github.com/dlang-dockerized/containerfiles> If one has a bit of CPU time to spare, one can easily build them on their own, too.
Jul 22