GITHUB2.md

Download and install a GIT repository from a Dockerfile

In the following instructions, we simply bypass docker hub to load our dockerimage with our code from github.

Using GIT

Some people seem to deploy git to clone github projects in docker images. We do not want to deploy git on production environments.

Using WGET and UNZIP

Instead, the following Dockerfile uses WGET and UNZIP to download and install a release from Github.

FROM dockerfile/nodejs

# install OS prerequisites
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install wget unzip -y

#Set version
ENV VERSION 0.1.0

# download Docker-AWS
RUN wget https://github.com/jlchereau/Docker-AWS/archive/v$VERSION.zip

# unzip Docker-AWS into /app
RUN unzip v$VERSION.zip -d /app

# set working directory
WORKDIR /app/Docker-AWS-$VERSION

# install node dependencies
RUN npm install

# Define default command.
CMD ["npm", "start"]

# Expose ports.
EXPOSE 8080

This file can be uploaded into AWS Elastic Beanstalk in place of Dockerrun.aws.json to deploy version 0.1.0.

This file can be found at https://github.com/jlchereau/Docker-AWS/blob/master/steps/5%20GITHUB2%20Download%20and%20Install/Dockerfile.