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Container for Alpine Linux + S6 + Ruby + Travis.CI CLI

This image containerizes the command-line client for Travis.CI (.org and .com) along with Ruby and its Gem dependencies.

Based on Alpine Linux from the ruby image with the travis.rb gem installed in it.

Get the Image

Pull the image from Docker Hub.

docker pull woahbase/alpine-travis
Image Tags

The image is tagged respectively for the following architectures,

latest tag is retagged from x86_64, so pulling without any tag fetches you that image. For any other architectures specify the tag for that architecture. e.g. for armv8 or aarch64 host it is alpine-travis:aarch64.

non-x86_64 images used to contain the embedded qemu-user-static binary which has been redundant for a while, and is being deprecated starting with our Alpine Linux v3.22 base-image release, see qemu-user-static or the more recent binfmt instead for running multi-arch containers.

Run

We can call travis commands directly on the container, or run bash in the container to get a user-scoped shell,

docker run --rm -it \
  --name docker_travis \
  --workdir /home/alpine/project \
  -v $PWD/travis`#`:/home/alpine/.travis \
  -v $PWD/yourproject`#`:/home/alpine/project \
woahbase/alpine-travis:x86_64 \
  --version

docker run --rm -it \
  --entrypoint /bin/bash \
  --name docker_travis \
  --workdir /home/alpine/project \
  -v $PWD/travis`#`:/home/alpine/.travis \
  -v $PWD/yourproject`#`:/home/alpine/project \
woahbase/alpine-travis:x86_64
  1. (Optional) Path to travis.ci configurations.
  2. (Required) Path to your website project directory.
Multi-Arch Support

If you want to run images built for other architectures on the same host (e.g. a x86_64 machine), you will need to have the specific binary format support configured on your host machine before running the image (otherwise you get an exec format error). Here's how,

For recent images, we can use tonistiigi's binfmt image to register binary execution support for the target architecture, like the following,

docker run --rm --privileged tonistiigi/binfmt --install <architecture>

Architecture is that of the image we're trying to run, can be arm64 for aarch64, arm for both armv7l and armhf, or amd64 for x86_64. See binfmt.

Previously, multiarch, had made it easy for us by packing qemu into an image, so we could just run

docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes

However, that image (see qemu-user-static) seems to have fallen behind in updates, and with newer images the binfmt method is preferable.

Now images built for other architectures will also be executable. This is optional though, without the above, you can still run the image that is specifically made to support your host architecture.

Configuration

  • Travis runs under the user alpine, which is ideal to run in non-root mode.

  • If you want to persist your travis data (logins or other configurations), mount a directory at /home/alpine/ or directly at /home/alpine/.travis.

  • Mount the project directory (where .travis.yml is) at /home/alpine/project. Mounts PWD by default.

Build Your Own

Feel free to clone (or fork) the repository and customize it for your own usage, build the image for yourself on your own systems, and optionally, push it to your own public (or private) repository.

Here's how...

Setting up

Before we clone the /repository, we must have Git, GNU make, and Docker (optionally, with buildx plugin for multi-platform images) setup on the machine. Also, for multi-platform annotations, we might require enabling experimental features of Docker.

Now, to get the code,

Clone the repository with,

git clone https://github.com/woahbase/alpine-travis
cd alpine-travis
Always Check Before You Make!

Did you know, we could check what any make target is going to execute before we actually run them, with

make -n <targetname> <optional args>

Build and Test

To create the image for your architecture, run the build and test target with

make build test

For building an image that targets another architecture, it is required to specify the ARCH parameter when building. e.g.

make build test ARCH=aarch64 

make build test ARCH=armhf 

make build test ARCH=armv7l 

make build test ARCH=x86_64

Make to Run

Running the image creates a container and either starts a service (for service images) or provides a shell (can be either a root-shell or usershell) to execute commands in, depending on the image. We can run the image with

make run

But if we just need a root-shell in the container without any fance pre-tasks (e.g. for debug or to test something bespoke), we can run bash in the container with --entrypoint /bin/bash. This is wrapped in the makefile as

make shell
Nothing vs All vs Run vs Shell

By default, if make is run without any arguments, it calls the target all. In our case this is usually mapped to the target run (which in turn may be mapped to shell).

There may be more such targets defined as per the usage of the image. Check the makefile for more information.

Push the Image

If the build and test steps finish without any error, and we want to use the image on other machines, it is the next step push the image we built to a container image repository (like /hub), for that, run the push target with

make push

If the built image targets another architecture then it is required to specify the ARCH parameter when pushing. e.g.

make push ARCH=aarch64 

make push ARCH=armhf 

make push ARCH=armv7l 

make push ARCH=x86_64

That's all folks! Happy containerizing!

Maintenance

Sources at Github. Images at Docker Hub.

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