[swift-server-dev] Fwd: Announcement: Official Docker Image for Swift now available

[Helge Heß]

Hi,

someone told me about this too. I don’t want to lower the work involved in that, but I suppose I just don’t understand what this is about. What does 'Dockerizing Swift’ mean? Isn’t that just

  wget <swift-tarball>
  tar zxf <swift-tarball>
  export PATH=$PATH:swift-tarball

? Or does it anything extra?

I think something which would be really helpful is a docker setup that is separating the build and the deployment step. That is, if I deploy a Swift Server app the last thing I want is to ship Swift llvm or clang, etc, but just the app and the runtime. Is someone working on something like that already?

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>> From: Swizzlr <me at swizzlr.co>
>> Date: 21 January 2017 at 22:10:59 GMT
>> To: swift-users <swift-users at swift.org>
>> Subject: Announcement: Official Docker Image for Swift now available
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I'm pleased to announce that with the assistance of many, many people (see below), we have released an “official" Docker image for Swift. 
>> 
>> The image contains everything needed to compile and run a Swift application, reliably and reproducibly. It’s based on Ubuntu 16.04 and has been used in production for many months now. A Docker library image such as this one occupies the top level namespace, so that you can simply write “FROM swift” to refer to the image. It has received extensive auditing for best practices and security by Docker experts, and will be maintained by a dedicated team of volunteers.
>> 
>> I would like to encourage everyone interested to ask questions and offer improvements over on the Github repo. Personally, I want to offer my thanks to Haris Amin and Oliver Letterer for their early and pioneering work on Dockerizing Swift, Tianon Gravi for his patient and informative feedback while refining the image; and all those who have contributed to its development.
>> 
>> Happy coding – I hope you make something excellent with this.
>> 
>> Tom
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