Docker image

[marcdumais-work]

Feature Description:

Before Theia joined the EF, we had the theia-apps repo. Because of its popularity and diversity of contributors, it's a hard repo to re-license, making it difficult to bring under the Foundation.

However, with the move to vscode extensions to support programming languages, it's becoming less important to have multiple, per-language examples, when the main difference is which extensions are bundled. They could essentially all use the same Theia application, in theory.

I think the theia-apps examples can remain, with minimal maintenance, for a while. But we can also make one or a couples, based on our experiences with theia-apps and the lessons learned there.

Let's start with a modest image, a Blueprint-based IDE appliance, for JavaScript/TypeScript software development.

Let's re-use the browser package we'll make in #74

[AlexTalker]

I'd love to see docker support, recently I tried to make up package for theia-full from the apps repo but that try ended up in some bugs in the end and I wanted to check if docker image works alright but it just won't download and seems to not be supported anymore.
So I would really like example of some docker-based stuff that actually works based on theia.
Then I might bodge up example of how to package this stuff for Linux distros, as now i only see the desktop version everywhere but I mostly access stuff remotely and VNC/RDP just doesn't cut it for me, I'd love to have something browser-based on the other side.

Sorry for the occasional ramble, just wanted to highlight that docker-based version would be helpful to at least some people.

[emvidi]

I would like to try a docker-based version

[marcdumais-work]

Hi @AlexTalker,

Good news: we are close to having a big pre-requisite done: a packaged browser Blueprint application, that can easily be included in a Docker image: #168

[dginhoux]

Great news for us!

I hope you'll be able to work like you want on this great project and be able to provide a docker image.

Have a good day and thanks everybody for all

[JonasHelming]

Good news: The default container from the Theia app repo is published here by a contributor:
https://quay.io/repository/zowe-explorer/theia?tab=tags

[czadikem]

This still being worked on?

[jfaltermeier]

Yes, I've started to prepare a Blueprint Docker Image here: https://github.com/eclipsesource/theia-cloud/blob/main/demo/dockerfiles/demo-theia-docker/Dockerfile

This uses this branch at the moment: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia-blueprint/tree/jf/docker
This branch does not include the electron Blueprint however.

Open topics are therefore
a) integrating the Browser-App from the branch into the main branch so that both electron and browser apps may be built. This might require to split some of the existing packages.
b) provide a minimal Dockerfile to package this. The Dockerfile linked above e.g. still contains a sample workspace or sets environment variables that should not be set in a Blueprint template