Pythonnet Docker images

[cowboygneox]

Hey guys,

For my Docker infrastructure, I threw together a couple of Docker images that will make it way easier to develop, test, and distribute code that leverages pythonnet. I think this would benefit most people in a Docker-based CI environment (ex. Gitlab), but I expect this will help others as well.

If you're interested in combining efforts on this, let me know!

https://hub.docker.com/r/cowboygneox/pythonnet/
https://github.com/cowboygneox/pythonnet-docker

[den-run-ai]

related:

#240

#303

cc @benley @AlexCatarino @jaredbroad

[den-run-ai]

@cowboygneox are you able to both extend and embed pythonnet using these docker images?

[cowboygneox]

@denfromufa "extend" and "embed" are ambiguous terms in my scattered brain. I believe that what I've produced is "embedded", since I already installed pythonnet 2.1.0 within the container. Any future pip install pythonnet==2.1.0 and the requirement will be already satisfied.

As for "extend", I'm not sure what you are looking for. Can you elaborate?

[benley]

I'm no longer working at the company where I was using pythonnet, so I probably won't be maintaining my Dockerfile variant in the future. Please feel free to fork/extend/take-over from https://github.com/benley/docker-wine-python-dotnet if it's of any use to you!

[den-run-ai]

@cowboygneox are you able to both extend and embed pythonnet using these docker images?

embedding and extending are terms used in CPython C-API:

https://docs.python.org/3/extending/

[cowboygneox]

@denfromufa It is my understanding that Docker does not prevent either. If you can do it with Python's Docker image, then mine is no different.

[cowboygneox]

@denfromufa I don't want this to fallout of short-term view. Are you interested in converging this effort somehow?

[den-run-ai]

@cowboygneox I'm interested in converging the effort, but after v2.2.0 release.

[cowboygneox]

@denfromufa Ping me when ready.

[vmuriart]

@cowboygneox your latest recipe doesn't need to include the pythonnet source code anymore right?

[cowboygneox]

@vmuriart Correct. I just uploaded the latest today to use Mono 4.8 and pythonnet 2.2.2. https://hub.docker.com/r/cowboygneox/pythonnet/

[vmuriart]

Yup, I noticed them while browsing 👍. Forewarning, I have limited docker knowledge so bare with me.

What do we need to combine efforts (not sure what you meant by this)?
I think you meant in relation to #240 to combine efforts, or was it to include a sample copy of the docker recipes?

[cowboygneox]

@vmuriart I'm suggesting that pythonnet make an official group on Docker Hub and updates various Docker images that have environments all configured and ready to go.

Using Docker has saved me a ton of time in configuring environments, and no matter how hard your team works to make the bridge of Python to .NET easy to install and manage, Docker will always be easier.

I can help if you'd like me to. I'm pretty much already doing it, and it's not a lot of effort to share.