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prezto docker container
This branch contains a Dockerfile and a Makefile that hopefully may prove helpful for prezto development.
The idea is to have a totally independendn and isolated environemnet in which to quickly make changes to either prezto-core or any plugin that may bein development, enabling automated testing and even continuous integration.
The container is a basic install of alpine linux, so the image download is reasonably small
On the container we have a few utilities and additionalsoftware that prezto has core support for, and you can check it out in a snap by doing:
docker pull hlecuanda/prezto-dev:latest
once you have the image, create a container from it with:
docker run -it --rm -h prezto hlecuanda/prezto-dev:latest
That will set you on a prompt within the container with a vanilla install of prezto.
A development and testing workflow can be achieved by mounting the stuff you're working on to the image's filesystem:
docker run -it --rm -h prezto \
-v /local/path:/home/prezto \
-v /local/path/zdotdir:/home/preztoa \
-v /local/module-dev-src:/home/prezto/.zprezto/modules/yourmodulea \
hlecuanda/prezto-dev:latest
the third volume mapping is particularly interesting. you can develop on your own machine and environnment, and when spinning up the container, your actual source is already in-plase as if installed on a vanilla prezto instance
keep in mind that the container are ephemeral, unless you remove the
--rm option which will create new containers each time you run the
command, but the changes to the filesystemwill persist on a container
file that you can later spin up again to re-use.
I have found epehermeral containers to be most useful since you get an untainted, pristine environment for testing every time you spin up the container.
hope this turns out to be useful.