Description

Run Emacs in docker containers!

This project provides different docker images:

• The main images (~500MB) only contain the runtime dependencies for Emacs to run.
• The -dev variants (~1400MB) contain additional developer tools such as Cask,
  git and Python. The Emacs source is available at /opt/emacs if
  you need to build Emacs differently.
• The -alpine variants (~200MB) follow the same logic as the main images but are based on
  Alpine Linux.

Tags

• master (master/ubuntu/18.04/Dockerfile)
• master-dev (master/ubuntu/18.04/Dockerfile)
• master-alpine (master/alpine/3.7/Dockerfile)
• master-alpine-dev (master/alpine/3.7/Dockerfile)
• 26.1, 26, latest (26.1/ubuntu/18.04/Dockerfile)
• 26.1-dev, 26-dev, dev (26.1/ubuntu/18.04/Dockerfile)
• 26.1-alpine, 26-alpine, alpine (26.1/alpine/3.7/Dockerfile)
• 26.1-alpine-dev, 26-alpine-dev, alpine-dev (26.1/alpine/3.7/Dockerfile)
• 25.3, 25 (25.3/ubuntu/18.04/Dockerfile)
• 25.3-dev, 25-dev (25.3/ubuntu/18.04/Dockerfile)
• 25.3-alpine, 25-alpine (25.3/alpine/3.7/Dockerfile)
• 25.3-alpine-dev, 25-alpine-dev (25.3/alpine/3.7/Dockerfile)
• 25.2 (25.2/ubuntu/18.04/Dockerfile)
• 25.2-dev (25.2/ubuntu/18.04/Dockerfile)
• 25.2-alpine (25.2/alpine/3.7/Dockerfile)
• 25.2-alpine-dev (25.2/alpine/3.7/Dockerfile)
• 25.1 (25.1/ubuntu/18.04/Dockerfile)
• 25.1-dev (25.1/ubuntu/18.04/Dockerfile)
• 24.5, 24 (24.5/ubuntu/18.04/Dockerfile)
• 24.5-dev, 24-dev (24.5/ubuntu/18.04/Dockerfile)
• 24.4 (24.4/ubuntu/12.04/Dockerfile)
• 24.4-dev (24.4/ubuntu/12.04/Dockerfile)
• 24.3 (24.3/ubuntu/12.04/Dockerfile)
• 24.3-dev (24.3/ubuntu/12.04/Dockerfile)
• 23.4, 23 (23.4/ubuntu/12.04/bootstrap/Dockerfile)
• 23.4-dev, 23-dev (23.4/ubuntu/12.04/bootstrap/Dockerfile)

Usage

Console

docker run -it --rm silex/emacs

GUI

xhost +local:root # WARN: this comes with security issues
docker run -it --rm -e DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix silex/emacs

Alternatives

• flycheck/emacs-cask: collection of docker images containing a
  minimal Emacs compiled from source with Cask.
• flycheck/emacs-travis: makefile which provides targets to
  install Emacs stable and emacs-snapshot, Texinfo and Cask.
• jgkamat/airy-docker-emacs: alpine-based docker images that have
  Emacs installed through the package manager.
• JAremko/docker-emacs: collection of docker images with focus on GUI usage.
• rejeep/evm: pre-built Emacs binaries.

Contributions

They are very welcome! The basic workflow is as follow:

• Modify images.yml.
• Modify files inside the /templates directory.
• Run bin/images generate to spread the changes everywhere.