We want to explore the inclusion of RT into our environment. We normally do initial evaluations and testing via docker. Is there an official or recommended docker image that we can distribute to our developers?
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I spotted that Best Practical had a couple of older Debian RT docker images on github. The latest (about 3 years old) is this one: GitHub - bestpractical/docker-rt-base-debian-stretch
There are other, non-BP created images. For example this one: GitHub - abh/rt-docker A Google search for “request tracker docker image” throws up a load more.
There are a large number of options users can select when installing, like Linux OS, web server, database, etc., so we don’t have a single docker image. However, we use it for our automated testing across many of the variations. If you start at our github actions config, you can find the commands to get things running along with various docker configs.
The Dockerfile in the RT github repo points to the latest base image we are using for testing. Since we use it to test new branches, RT itself isn’t in the image. The github actions config shows how we build the selected RT branch and run all the tests.
Honestly, I think BP should consider providing something a bit more obvious and specific in this regard.
I came across Request Tracker and want to quickly evaluate whether it’s anywhere near what I’m looking for. So yes, I could investigate and sift through various contributors’ docker configs, try to make a decision about things like databases etc, work out which configs are standard, recent and safe, and try to run one.
But I really hoped for a one-liner docker cli command that I could just run, test, then kill and delete without having to invest time.