docker-zulip VS docker-android

Running an arbitrary thing in Docker is far easier than without it. If I want to run the PHP/MySQL-based Matomo, I can just grab the ready-made docker-compose.yml [0] and tell my main nginx to proxy_pass onto it. I don’t need to figure out how to configure MySQL/MariaDB/PHP-FPM and what hacks did my distro introduce to it (at least I’m not using Debian/Ubuntu, so there shouldn’t be that many). Similarly, I can get Zulip in Docker [1] (even if it’s apparently in alpha state) and not mess with the Python packaging trainwreck, and also setting up all of Redis, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and memcached.

[0]: https://github.com/matomo-org/docker/tree/master/.examples/n...

[1]: https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip

> complicated to deploy. Not just a simple docker container or anything.

Huh? https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip

We started with this, but slightly modified it for our use - added database backup, and changed the configuration, as we needed to configure things that are not possible to configure via env vars (SSO, for example).

If it was me I'd go with a docker-android container. You could go with Anbox or a virtual android machine, but if you just need to run one app, I think a docker container would be the way to go, since you could script it to open, run your app, and shut down.

I haven't personally tested this one, however, there is this project on github: https://github.com/budtmo/docker-android which uses containers.

I know this isn't the focus of the article, but this license provision in a linked project is outright strange.

>By using this software you agree that the following non-PII (non personally identifiable information) data will be collected, processed and used by the maintainers for the purpose of improving the docker-android project. Anonymisation with respect of the IP address means that only the first two octets of the IP address are collected.

https://github.com/budtmo/docker-android/blob/master/LICENSE...

How can you call a project Apache when you're forcing people to pay via their data ? Why is their no opt out option?

Absent that this seems like a great QA automation tool. Or a Tinder bot farm...

Alternatively, there are a few docker projects such as this one https://github.com/budtmo/docker-android that might work well. Haven’t tried it.

So far i was using docker-android i did use in my ubuntu during yesterday and was working fine

https://github.com/budtmo/docker-android this perhaps?

It's got absolutely nothing to do with the trustability of Android emulators. In fact I highly doubt they used something like Bluestacks, but rather something that can be chained with scripts like an Android docker container.