SLUUG ~ GNU Make and Docker Containers for Web Sites

https://www.sluug.org/

The BASICS portion is: GNU Make your life easier
by Ryan J. Price, Slalom Consulting, Clayton

GNU Make is an automation program that ships with nearly all operating systems that come with GNU software, and has for decades. In my experience, Make is criminally underutilized in modern software. Many developers these days may not have even heard of Make, because they either write small enough programs to "not need it", or write high-level code that removes the need for compilation altogether.

In this short demo, I will scream my love for Make from the top of the building, demonstrate the power and freedom that it provides, and remind everyone that it's not just for C code!

Its steps are written as shell commands. Useful for targets such as high-level software like Python, Ruby, R, or even Bash itself. For example, instead of writing a verbose and ugly case block for different arguments that Bash might take (via getopts, for instance), you can just define those arguments as "targets" in Make.

And perhaps the greatest benefit to Make is that the Makefiles that it uses move entirely with your codebase in version control, so these "recipes" for common commands are always with your code, on any system that Make runs on. This is not only a boon for developers of your code, but great for reducing verbosity in custom definitions in CI/CD tools like Jenkins Pipelines.

In this short talk, I'll walk through a sample Makefile structure that I use for Python packages, and others if time permits. I will demonstrate that the common venv, build, test, and install commands that can be tedious to type out are reduced to simple make commands that take as few as four characters to run.

Ryan J. Price:
"Data scientist", statistician, and applied econometrician by academic trade, and a "data engineer" by recent profession. Loves video games.

The MAIN presentation is: Web Sites to Docker Containers
by Chuck Doolittle, Graybar Electric

Want a website (or many), without a server?

I'll start with a quick overview of Docker.

Then I show the process of converting a normal server-based web site to a docker container that can run on any OS.

We'll finish with time for Q&A with live systems available as examples.

Details will be published on http://www.sluug.org/ when available. See https://www.sluug.org/resources/calendar/