DockerBuilder: allow for remote Docker daemons

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, typescript
Domain
build-system, devops

Research direction

Start by locating the DockerBuilder implementation and the current Docker client construction shown in the issue. Trace how build context contents are provided to the daemon, then determine the configuration needed for a remote HTTPS daemon and how that context could be transferred. Done means a configured remote daemon can build the image without requiring a local Docker installation.

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Description

enhancement

Currently, Dockter requires Docker to be installed on the system. That's because we're using:

const docker = new Docker() # Connects to local Docker daemon via '/var/run/docker.sock'

But, in theory, we could allow for a remote Docker daemon to build images (it would require that the folder contents be zipped up and send across the network). e.g.

const docker = new Docker({
  protocol: 'https',
  host: 'some.docker-server.org',
  port: process.env.DOCKER_PORT || 2375,
  ca: fs.readFileSync('ca.pem'),
  cert: fs.readFileSync('cert.pem'),
  key: fs.readFileSync('key.pem')
})

Not a high priority, but could be useful for users who don't have Docker installed and don't want to.

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
124
Forks
10
Avg merge
3h 28m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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