Setting up a Python Development Environment with Docker and Alpine Linux!
Frist, download and install Docker Desktop in your computer. Once, you are done with that, you can follow the steps here to create a development environment!
Setting up the Docker
First pull the docker image:
docker pull alpine
Verify that it as been downloaded:
docker images
Now run it:
docker run -it alpine
Then, list all docker containers:
docker container ls -a
Note the first 3 letters of your alpine linux docker container. Mine is, 743.
You can stop or stop the docker using the following commands on your host machine:
Starting the container:
docker container start 743
Stopping the container:
docker container stop 743
Attaching the STDIO to a docker container:
docker container attach 743
You can also copy files from your host machine to the container:
Copying from host to docker:
docker cp Python 743:/
Now, I don't like running those long comands to start and attach the docker, so I create an alias for it:
Because I am using zsh, I'll add the configuration the zshrc file, if you're on Windows you should do it in the profile file.
vi ~/.zshrc
Go to the end:
pyenv(){
docker container start 743 && docker container attach 743
}
Now, you probably know how to save and exit vim
. :P
Source the file so that the changes take place:
. ~/.zshrc
To run start the docker now:
pyenv
Now, you should be in your container!
Updating alpine linux
In the docker:
apk update
apk upgrade
Adding python
apk add python3 py-pip nmap nmap-scripts
pip install --upgrade pip
pip3 install --upgrade pip
Adding python modules:
pip3 install bs4 Mechanize requests python3-nmap