Docker image for cloud container orchestration

Many cloud providers offer container orchestration services that abstract away from managing servers or compute instances (e.g. Amazon ECS, Azure Container Instances). A docker image tagged for the latest version of Urbit would drastically simplify the process of deploying urbits to the cloud, which is preferable for planets, stars, and galaxies.

Deliverables

• A merged pull request to the urbit/urbit repository, with nix code to generate a docker image
  • With a volume-mountable path for a ship
  • With a volume-mountable path for a keyfile
• CI integration to release the docker image as a GitHub artifact when version releases of Urbit are cut
• CI integration to publish the image on Docker Hub when version releases of Urbit are cut
• Documentation:
  • Reference for volume mounts and controlling the behavior of Urbit in a container
  • Volume mount points for keyfiles or existing ships
  • Ports to publish for Landscape and external API access.
  • Quickstarts for deploying an Urbit ship to
  • Amazon ECS
  • Azure Container Instances

Team

Edward Amsden ~ritpub-sipsyl is a veteran developer with several years experience using Nix to manage production builds and deployments. He is the principal of Black River Software LLC