[Freeipa-users] First-class support for the docker image

[Terence Kent]

Hello,

We've been using the FreeIPA docker image for a few years now with great 
success. I really can't overstate how much we get by using a container 
deployment for FreeIPA. We can now easily test anything from version 
upgrades to orchestration code  against either test data and our 
production data set. That, and we get all the typical docker goodness 
(we can easily move the container between hosts, change the underlying 
OS independently, etc, etc).

That said, lots of the work in the freeipa docker image's gitrepo are 
things that seem like they belong in the freeipa main codebase. We've 
had to trace through the freeipa-container source from time to time to 
diagnose issues and we see situations where the docker build file 
actually modifies python code using text replaces.

This seems both easily breakable and like a lot more work than just 
modifying the source file to optionally support whatever a containerized 
environment needs. Is there a reason to keep container support out of 
the main freeipa project?

Best,
Terence