On 29 Dec 2017, at 14:24, Clément Aubin <aubincleme(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi, On 12/29/2017 01:59 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: As I understand it, we would have one Dockerfile per released version of XWiki.

Can't we commit the Dockerfile to any repo (github.com/xwiki/docker, for example) when performing the release, just as what is done by the maven-release-plugin ?

Thanks > Thanks > -Vincent > >> On 29 Dec 2017, at 11:29, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: >> >> Hi devs, >> >> I wanted to give you some info on what I’m doing for implementing multi environment testing on XWiki. >> >> Initially I thought about this architecture (let’s call it the "running maven inside docker” strategy): http://massol.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/DockerJenkinsConfigurationTes… >> >> However after more thinking, I think it’s not the best solution. I’m now exploring the “‘running docker inside maven” strategy which works as follows: The generation of the docker image + the start/stop of the docker containers is done by the maven build itself. >> >> This has the following advantages: >> * It’s not dependent on the CI system used >> * It allows the build to be reproduced locally on dev machines (only prerequisite is to have docker installed - note that right now the prerequisite is to have FF installed locally and we would swap this req. in favor of docker) >> * We’ll generate the official xwiki docker images as part of our build and not anymore as some external build/steps to execute >> * The build will be done fully with Maven (no more gradle) >> >> FYI, the plugin I’m exploring for this is the fabric8.io one: https://dmp.fabric8.io/#introduction >> >> I’ve started the work locally and I’ll commit once I have something ready enough. >> >> Let me know if you have some opinion or questions about this. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> >> >> >