12. Use containers

Date: 2023-01-18

Status

Accepted

Context

Allow developers and users to take advantage of containers.

Decision

Provide a single Dockerfile that can build two kinds of container:

• a minimal runtime container that can be used to execute the application in isolation without setting up a virtual environment or installing system dependencies

• a devcontainer for working on the project with the same isolation as above

CI builds the runtime container and publishes it to ghcr.io.

A .devcontainer folder provides the means to build and launch the developer container using vscode.

Consequences

We can label projects as cloud native.