Docker on Raspberry Pi

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Post by petrosagg » Sun, Nov 10, 2013, 9:41 PM UTC

Docker on Raspberry Pi
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Re: Docker on Raspberry Pi

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Post by overdrev » Sun, Nov 10, 2013, 9:55 PM UTC

Nice.

Re: Docker on Raspberry Pi

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Post by alexandros » Sun, Nov 10, 2013, 10:11 PM UTC

Happy to have this out there. We worked quite hard on this the past few weeks, hopefully it will help people see the benefit of Docker for the embedded world as they have seen it on the server side.

Re: Docker on Raspberry Pi

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Post by rolleiflex » Sun, Nov 10, 2013, 10:16 PM UTC

Very nice. Even if just for marketing I think this is going to pay for itself. Many people have Raspberry Pi's lying around, semi-useless. Working on this gives me a nice a weekend-night project I can try without fear of borking something critical on my other devices, plus a new thing to play with is always welcome.

Re: Docker on Raspberry Pi

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Post by fredrikcarno » Sun, Nov 10, 2013, 10:20 PM UTC

Really nice work, im preparing to roll out a audio application for the pi and this could be very usefull

Re: Docker on Raspberry Pi

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Post by csense » Sun, Nov 10, 2013, 10:34 PM UTC

If their focus is on the Internet of Things and hardware applications enabled by the Pi, their next focus should be creating or linking to documentation about how to expose hardware interfaces like the Pi's GPIO to guests.

Of course a higher priority should be cleaning up the process in this article, making the install simpler, getting precompiled kernels/images out there, getting it to work with Raspbian host.

Re: Docker on Raspberry Pi

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Post by FooBarWidget » Sun, Nov 10, 2013, 10:37 PM UTC

Docker awesome. Anybody who wants to play around it with can do so easily with the Docker-friendly Vagrant boxes that I've built. http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/11/08/docker-friendly-vagrant-bo... It used to be a minor pain to provision to Vagrant of the system reboot required to replace the kernel, but these boxes have already done that part for you.

Docker still has some bugs though. I hope they'll fix them quickly.

Re: Docker on Raspberry Pi

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Post by alexandros » Sun, Nov 10, 2013, 10:41 PM UTC

csense wrote: post #6

If their focus is on the Internet of Things and hardware applications enabled by the Pi, their next focus should be creating or linking to documentation about how to expose hardware interfaces like the Pi's GPIO to guests. Of course a higher priority should be cleaning up the process in this article, making the install simpler, getting precompiled kernels/images out there, getting it to work with Raspbian host.

Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully the instructions in the article will be helpful to the docker team first and foremost, and adventurous hackers possibly. The hope is that this will become part of official docker, not that people will have to repeat a 100+ step process.

As a side note, getting this working on Raspbian should be feasible (consider it an exercise for the reader), we just used Arch as we've focused on that for a bunch of other things.

Re: Docker on Raspberry Pi

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Post by TheMakeA » Sun, Nov 10, 2013, 10:44 PM UTC

I'm looking for "the CoreOS of Raspberry Pi." Just a barebones Linux distro that just runs Docker images.

Anyone have any ideas?

Re: Docker on Raspberry Pi

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Post by alexandros » Sun, Nov 10, 2013, 10:47 PM UTC

TheMakeA wrote: post #9

I'm looking for "the CoreOS of Raspberry Pi." Just a barebones Linux distro that just runs Docker images. Anyone have any ideas?

If anyone gets that done it will make us very happy! We run our servers on CoreOS, putting it on the devices as well would be awesome. AFAICT it's about getting etcd to run on the Pi, as well as any other small projects that make up CoreOS.