Containerization

[ncipollina]

I had a few issues in getting the app running due to the. Net core version requirement for ravendb. Any thought to adding Docker support so the server can run in a container and remove that dependency?

[DavidRieman]

Could you describe what sort of trouble you ran into? Was it a runtime error coming from RavenDB at startup?

How does Docker help here? I'm vaguely aware of Docker but haven't used it before; is it basically setting devs up with a guaranteed mini cloud environment, so no dependency setup? Can devs run/test this way with no server costs? If we can have a low impact way to support Containerized mode while continuing to support the existing app / Windows Service modes, that does seem worthwhile. I'm interested to hear more :)

[ncipollina]

It's been a minute since I added this discussion. I don't remember anymore what I ran into, but if RavenDB is a requirement, if you run this using something like docker compose or even a local k8's solution like minikube, you could have a RavenDB instance start with the server instance.