Sync Gateway docker with ubuntu about docker HOT 3 CLOSED

This fails with the error Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory

That's happening because systemd isn't running in the container, and it tries to start the sync_gateway systemd service for convenience reasons.

Some ideas to get around that:

• dpkg might have a flag to prevent the systemctl start sync_gateway step from running (@ajres have you heard of that?)
• If there is a zip file download available for Sync Gateway, you could use that instead
• Install go, clone the Sync Gateway repo, and build it from source during the docker build step using these instructions

I want to use ubuntu as I want to run my app and sync_gateway in the same container

Just as a heads up, that approach is "frowned upon" by docker purists, who advocate basically running a single process in a container. Having said that, I get that sometimes that it's not feasible given other constraints.

What is the reason that the sync_gateway Dockerfile uses centos rather than ubuntu (the Couchbase Server Dockerfile uses ubuntu)?

I think it was just because most enterprise users gravitate towards RHEL and CentOS.

I'm going to close the issue until there are any action items, just to try to keep the issue tracker clean .. but feel free to continue the discussion here!

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Here is the .tar.gz version of a recent Sync Gateway version: http://latestbuilds.hq.couchbase.com/couchbase-sync-gateway/1.4.1/1.4.1-3/couchbase-sync-gateway-community_1.4.1-3_x86_64.tar.gz

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Thanks Traun,

I'll try with this tgz file today.

The explanation in the previous message made sense as well. On your point about preventing the systemctl cmd from running, I'm not sure if there's an option to do that, but I believe you can run "dpkg --unpack" rather than "--install" to just unpack the pkg file without configuring. I guess this would be the same as (or very similar to) extracting the tgz file, so I can try this.

Regards,
Giles

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