[question] Docker Runner example

[maitrey]

###Docker Runner Example
Dear Conan Folks,

I do have a use-case in Linux where I have to create packages inside a container because of QNX environment.
I am looking for examples to play around and perhaps use the feature: https://docs.conan.io/2/reference/runners/docker.html.

We have to create conan packages inside a docker container because we have 3rd party container deliveries with QNX libraries.
Also when building variants and afterwards uploading them using GitHub workflows, we need to do a conan cache save, upload variant and in the upload job download the artifact and do a conan cache restore. This needs docker environment to be created twice(installing conan, conan config install several times for each Docker container variant).
It is unclear if the profile shall be copied to the workspace and edited to indicate the Dockerfile location:

docker_example_host profile

[settings]
build_type=Release
arch=x86_64
compiler=gcc
compiler.cppstd=gnu17
compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11
compiler.version=11
os=Linux

[runner]
type=docker
**dockerfile=</my/runner/folder>/mylib**
cache=copy
remove=true
platform=linux/amd64

I think the Docker runner feature looks promising and takes care of these steps.
Could you please share me an example to try out this feature?

Thanks!
Br,
Maitrey

Have you read the CONTRIBUTING guide?

• I've read the CONTRIBUTING guide

[memsharded]

Hi @maitrey

Thanks for your question.

I think that besides the docs in https://docs.conan.io/2/reference/runners/docker.html, and the linked examples there in https://docs.conan.io/2/examples/runners.html

the other possibility would be checking the tests in https://github.com/conan-io/conan/blob/develop2/test/functional/command/runner_test.py

[memsharded]

Hi @maitrey

Did the above tests help? Any further question or comment? Thanks for the feedback.