My Hack environment in a Docker container

The container actually is based on rust:latest which itself is based on Debian (Bookworm). Maybe I will switch to the Debian image, or better switch to an Alpine based image in the future. Actually I prefer the Debian image because it makes it more flexible to me because sometimes I need the GNU libc to compile programs.

Why the name "rusty"? Because it is based on some earlier Docker stuff I made for compiling Rust code... And rusty just sounds cool.

My plan is to switch from Docker to native Linux Containers at some time but I am faster in building the prototype using Docker... ;)

Get the code

git clone https://git.xw3.org/hanez/rusty
# or
git clone git@git.xw3.org:hanez/rusty.git (needs an account on git.xw3.org)
cd rusty

Prepare environment

mkdir -p home/$USER
chown $USER:$USER home/$USER
su
# or 
sudo su
chown root:root home
mkdir root
chown root:root root

Configure your environment (Optional)

Optionally you can configure your $HOME directories. I do this by pulling my $HOME config from my Git server. E.g.:

cd home/hanez
git clone git@git.xw3.org:hanez/home.git
cd ../..
su
# or
sudo su
cd root
git clone git@git.xw3.org:hanez/home.git
cd ..

Using docker compose

docker compose build
docker compose up -d
docker attach rusty

Using the Dockerfile only (less comfortable and without shared directories)

I recommend not to do it this way! You have been warned!

docker build -t rusty .
docker run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash rusty

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