Provide 'onbuild' option for auto-installing Drupal from an install profile about drupal HOT 7 CLOSED

I envisioned a Drupal onbuild option more as a rapid development system. It's rare to deploy Drupal without adding modules, themes, and other code to shape a build or add functionality. With a proper onbuild, code would be modified on the host using familiar tools, and deployed into the Docker container for review.

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I was thinking about this feature today.

We can take advantage of Drush installation

drush dl drupal --drupal-project-rename=example
cd example
drush site-install standard --db-url='mysql://[db_user]:[db_pass]@localhost/[db_name]' --site-name=Example --account-name=admin --account-pass=[useruser_pass]

A more detailed documentation can be found: https://www.drupal.org/documentation/install/developers

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I'm not sure I understand the expected use case for an onbuild variant of Drupal -- can you elaborate? My understanding of Drupal is that it's a CMS, and that modifications on top of it would be things like installing modules/themes and custom content, so I'm not sure I comprehend what an onbuild variant would accomplish (and especially what it would accomplish in a way that's not already trivial with a custom Dockerfile and automated builds/repository links (to keep it up to date when the base changes)).

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Drupal has distributions https://www.drupal.org/documentation/build/distributions, like Linux Debian, then many other distributions like Ubuntu built on top of it.

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Drupal has command line tools: Drush or DrupalConsole. A wild idea is that when a "docker run" is first called, a Drupal distribution or Profile name is passed as a ENV or parameter. Then, the command line tool will take care all the installation. Maybe, this has nothing to do with "onbuild" option. I haven't really looked into this yet.

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I'm still not convinced this makes sense as an ONBUILD variant. The way ONBUILD works is that we can pre-define a set of Dockerfile instructions which are run automatically when someone does FROM drupal:onbuild. There's no way to configure, change, or influence them in any way short of them including a COPY which then requires your local tree to have specific files in place, so the flexibility of the feature is very, very limited. As such, I'm a very strong -1 on including any kind on onbuild variant for this image.

That being said, I'd be open to better documentation about expanding this image for more complex use cases such as adding modules, themes, etc.

Thanks!

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