A Docker image for developing with RCloud

Get Docker for your platform.

From the command line, with your Docker deamon running, enter

docker pull mangothecat/rcloud-dev

The image is based on the official rcl0ud/rcloud image and makes a few tweaks to aid development. That image is based on Debian Jessie.

This Docker image is designed for someone who is developing RCloud code. To that end you will have a repository checked out from https://github.com/att/rcloud or your own fork.

Make sure your working directory is the root of the rcloud repository. Launch a container making sure to map port 8080 back to your local host.

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 --rm -v </path/to/rcloudrepo>:/data/rcloud -v rcdev

and with other packages you are developing similarly mounted. Linux and Mac users can just use -v .:/data/rcloud but that never seems to work for me from standard Windows shells.

Once launched the container will run the scripts/build.sh script that rebuilds the javascript and the R packages. This can take up to a minute and so there will be a delay before RCloud comes up. When it's done go to:

http://localhost:8080/login.R

And then you can start you RCloud testing.

There is a .gitattributes file that should ensure files are checked out with Linux line endings. Try to keep this when creating new files with Windows. When they are mounted into Linux Windows line endings can cause problems in the container.

The easiest way to run RCloud is with a docker-compose file. This lets you set up a group of containers and volumes without specifying everything as a command line option. This is particularly useful if you are also running a solr instance from https://github.com/mangothecat/docker-rcloud-solr. An example docker-compose is in this repo.