Continuous Integration (CI)

• Gogs + Drone + Docker

  • Gogs: a painless self-hosted Git service.
    • Dockerized Gogs git server and alpine postgres in 20 minutes or less
    • Run your own GitHub-like service with the help of Docker
  • Drone: Continuous Delivery platform built on Docker, written in Go (docs, readme)
  • Running Gogs and Drone with docker-compose
  • GitHub:drone-demos/drone-with-go

• Jenkins: self-contained Java-based automation server; provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project; with packages for Windows, Mac OS X and other Unix-like operating systems.

  • Gitlab & Gitlab CI & GitLab-Jenkins integration
  • extensions.gnome-org: jenkins indicator

Docker

• Docker Overview
• Win and macOs: Docker Toolbox, which requires VirtualBox.
  • On Win10 with Hyper-V enabled, Docker for Windows is preferred.
  • Issue when using -it on Windows, solution: prepend winpty.
• Dockerfile reference
  • Best practices for writing Dockerfiles

Propietary applications inside a docker container

• Sandboxing proprietary applications with Docker
  • Installing Xilinx ISE

Precision inside fedora:latest

Install

docker run --name mgps -it \
           -v $(pwd):/work:z \
           -v /tmp/.X11-unix/:/tmp/.X11-unix \
           -e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY \
           fedora:latest bash -c "dnf update -y && dnf install -y java*openjdk && /work/Precision-linux64-2015.2.bin"

Follow the steps in the installation GUI and select /opt/ as the target path. When finished:

docker cp mgps:/opt/ tmpdir/tmpopt
docker rm mgps

Reorder content as desired, and add the following Dockerfile to tmpdir:

FROM fedora:latest

WORKDIR /work

COPY /tmpopt/ /opt/

RUN dnf install -y redhat-lsb libX11 libXft \
  && printf '#!/bin/bash\neval "/opt/PS2015.2.10/bin/${1} ${@:2}"\n' > /usr/bin/pspath \
  && chmod +x /usr/bin/pspath \
  && echo '/opt/PS2015.2.10/bin/lmgrd -c /opt/<mg.lic> -l /opt/log.log && sleep 3s && cat /opt/log.log' > /etc/profile.d/init_lmgrd.sh'

ENV LM_LICENSE_FILE="<port@myhost>"

where <mg.lic> is the license file you obtained from the vendor, and <port@myhost> must match the settings in that file.

Last, from tmpdir, run:

docker build -t <myimage> .

Run

docker run --rm -it \
           -v /tmp/.X11-unix/:/tmp/.X11-unix \
           -e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY \
           -h "<myhost>" \
           --mac-address="<mymac>"
           <myimage>

where <myhost>, <mymac> and <myimage> must match the values used when installing.

ModelSim/QuestaSim inside fedora:latest

The same steps as for Precision should be followed. However, ModelSim/QuestaSim might not behave as expected with versions of freetype newer than 2.4.12. Therefore, it is recommended to install that version, by prepending the following line to the install call:

 dnf install -y make gcc wget && wget --content-disposition https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.12/freetype-2.4.12.tar.gz/download -O - | tar -xz && cd freetype-2.4.12 && ./configure --prefix=/opt/MentorGraphics/freetype --exec-prefix=/opt/MentorGraphics/freetype && make && make install && export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/MentorGraphics/freetype/lib/ &&

UI for management and visualization

• portainer: the easiest way to manage Docker; is an open-source lightweight management UI which allows you to easily manage your Docker host or Swarm cluster.
• dockviz: takes Docker image and container information and presents in different ways, to help you understand what's going on inside the system

Lightweight hosts to run docker containers

• boot2docker.io: a lightweight Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux made specifically to run Docker containers.
• RancherOS
• blog.docker.com
  • 2015/02/the-new-minimalist-operating-systems
  • 2015/03/tiny-docker-operating-systems

Orchestration

• shipyard: multi-host, cluster management, that uses Docker Swarm for cluster resourcing and scheduling.
  • Orchestrating a cluster of Docker servers with Shipyard
• Kubernetes: Production-Grade Container Orchestration; automated container deployment, scaling, and management.