Re: [BuildStream] Introduce a docker sandbox

[Thomas Besemer <thomas besemer gmail com>]

Hi All,

I have been looking into running Docker containers from within Buildstream.  I found this traffic in the list archives:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/buildstream-list/2018-October/msg00081.html

I haven't been able to find much around Docker, other than how to run Buildstream within Docker, and I didn't see if there was follow-up to the above noted discussions.

I am working with some people who have constructed a build system within many Docker containers, and I am looking into whether I can run those Docker containers within Buildstream.  Is this even possible?  I've looked at the Alpine based sandbox, and I built my own sandbox runtime with Ubuntu, but it looks like everything is contained within Bubblewrap, making it seem difficult/unpractical to run Docker containers?  I would need to both build Docker containers, and fetch from Artifactory for import into Docker containers and/or run them.

From what I can tell, this probably isn't a good approach anyways - it seems it would be best to run a standard Make, CMake or autotools based build from within Buildstream, and encapsulate the entire build system, including Buildstream, in a Docker container to allow execution under Windows and Linux.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts/comments on this,

tom