Should we dockerize EddieBot?

I think I remember hearing in some Eddie’s livestream a suggestion about using Docker in this project. This issue is to start the conversation and discussion about this topic.

From my point of view, maybe we could simplify the development process of a new contributor, by enabling the use of a command like docker run eddiebot-image that has everything set up. The main challenge I see is settings up the Firebase Firestore database in this environment, but @stemount is an expert at DevOps so he could surely help in this regard 😄.

Let me know your thoughts 😃.

[stemount]

@BOLT04 @TECHNOFAB11 @BOLT04 massively disappointed that the Firebase Emulation suite doesn’t allow you to (without some dodgy hax, which I did try) just create a project (You still need valid online credentials - the documentation is super vague), I left the code in feature/add-dotenv-with-firestore-local or something for somebody if they wanna try and rescue that code, but it seemed to add little value to use a local DB if you use a test account anyway

[TECHNOFAB11]

+1 for Docker. Using Docker quite a lot and its extremely easy to build a container. Depending on how public it should be you may want to look into where to deploy (https://hub.docker.com, https://github.com/features/packages, etc.). Docker makes it a lot more reliable in my opinion, thanks to “auto restart on” etc.