Docker container for building, testing and developing Mantid. If your host system is Windows then it might be better to setup a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2).
There are images for each base OS:
mantidproject/mantid-development-centos7- CentOS 7mantidproject/mantid-development-ubuntubionic- Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)
Typically you'd want to use the latest tag, this corresponds to the latest version of the developer package.
If you do need a specific developer package version then they are available as tags.
Tags follow the naming convention of devpkg-VER, where VER is the developer package version installed.
The images contain three directories /mantid_src, /mantid_build and /mantid_data which are to be used for the source, build and CMake external data directories respectively.
It is recommended to have these directories mounted to locations on the host filesystem. Reasons being:
- Using your existing SCM, editors, etc. (you modify the code on the host filesystem as you will have probably already been doing)
- Using common external data for host builds and all container builds
- Running a container built or packaged Mantid on the host (assuming an appropriate host system and base image)
To ensure file permissions are handled correctly if mapping volumes to your host filesystem you must pass the PUID and PGID environment variables when starting a container, these should be set to your user ID and group ID respectively.
The mantid_development.sh script can be used to start a container, this script takes four parameters:
./mantid_development.sh [os] [source] [build] [external data][os] is the image variant you want to use (one of centos7 or ubuntubionic).
[source], [build] and [external data] are the volumes which will be mounted as the source (root of the Mantid Git repository), build and CMake external data directories.
These can either be paths to the host filesystem or names of Docker volumes.
This will give you a bash shell in the build directory.
From here you can run cmake and your build tool of choice just as you would on your host OS.
Inside the container you will have the username abc which is a standard (i.e. non-root) user with sudo ability.
The mantid_development.sh (and mantid_development_x11docker.sh) scripts may need to be modified to suit your system and the environment that you are running them under.
In their current state they are a reasonable default.
All images contain a script ($HOME/configure.sh) which will perform a sensible CMake configuration ready for building.
Of course, this can be done manually if a specific configuration is required, however the script should be inspected to find common paths, etc.
For running GUI parts of Mantid (i.e. MantidPlot and workbench) the easiest option is to use x11docker via mantid_development_x11docker.sh:
./bin/mantid_development_x11docker.sh [os] [source] [build] [external data] [cmd]If you don't want to or can't use x11docker then you can try using simple X server mapping (see section below).
One way to get networking to work over a proxy server is to directly use the host system's networking from Docker. First, one needs to enable port forwarding. On Ubuntu 16.04 this can be done by
sudo sysctl net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding=1
sudo iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPTNext, the container has to be launched with the --network host option in docker run command.
To actually specify the proxy settings, pass --env http_proxy="http://proxy.domain.tv:2323" and --env https_proxy="https://proxy.domain.tv:5555" to the command.
The mantid_development.sh and mantid_development_x11docker.sh scripts are the bare minimum requirements for developing under Docker.
This section gives some examples of additional arguments you may want to include in those scripts for specific purposes.
All examples are arguments to docker run.
If you'd like to use any with x11docker you must pass them in the manner shown in the mantid_development_x11docker.sh.
Removes security restrictions that would usually prevent a debugger from running correctly. Tested with GDB.
--security-opt seccomp=unconfined
--cap-add=SYS_PTRACEAdds X server forwarding for "standard" Docker use (i.e. not x11docker).
Host IPC namespacing is required for some Qt functionality.
--env DISPLAY="$DISPLAY"
--volume "/tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:ro"
--volume "$HOME/.Xauthority:/home/abc/.Xauthority:ro"
--ipc=hostSome network functionality (e.g. live streaming) may require (or at least become easier with) host network access.
--net=hostUseful for disabling the painfully annoying "Welcome to Mantid!" splash screen. Also persisting IDF updates, shell history and such.
--volume mantid_development_home:/home/abcman docker-run