TRtretiy3·Jan 25, 2020
I am using tramp primarily to edit files inside docker containers.
https://github.com/emacs-pe/docker-tramp.el
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docker-tramp.el
TRAMP integration for docker containers
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3 sources> There are people who with a straight face claim configuration management is unnecessary if you have a single shell script, aka Dockerfile.
Apparently it is not only unnecessary, it is an anti-pattern: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/presentations/confi...
> You used to be able to write an app in C, pre-build it for a dozen platforms, then run it on a dozen platforms. Now you have to run everything on one platform (a virtualized containerized Linux environment) because anything else is literally impossible. You can still run the app anywhere - it just has five or six layers of virtualization, abstraction and tooling now.
I see more and more "here is a Docker image!" things pop up for tiny shell script utilities on github. It's like autotools with 100x the complexity and "portable" to exactly one platform. People have no clue wha
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t they are doing, they just want any excuse to use Docker.
> The container is supposed to be this read-only isolated self-sufficient jail, so good luck getting anything out of it without a bunch of hoops. You seriously need to specify 50 different config values just to do simple things like networking, writing to a persistent disk, picking what to run or stop, interacting with other apps.
This is my biggest pain point with containers, and where I feel Docker marketing is lying the most. Docker is pitched as making development easier, when in fact containers significantly impede debugging. You even need special tools (like https://github.com/emacs-pe/docker-tramp.el) to do the most basic tasks like look at files. The marketing hype is that all you need to solve production problems is a log server and a few line graphs of metrics (better hope you instrument your app code for the right metrics...). Add in microservices and now you need distributed tracing too. This extra infrastructure is a ton of work to set up for small apps.
Could you share details, please? Does it work out-of-the box or what do I need do do this?
Edit:
Found it out myself. Install docker-tramp.el [1],
`C-x C-f` to `/user@myserver|docker:mycontainer:/`
[1]: https://github.com/emacs-pe/docker-tramp.el
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