The devcontainer missed two tools used by code formatting, as done by
`ci/fix_style.sh`
The missing tools were both python tools, used for formatting our python
scripts.
- black
- isort
This change adds both tools. The way it does this is by keeping a
`requirements.txt` in `.devcontainer/` containing all python
dependencies we need to install. When installing both tools in a clean
environment we have exported all installed packages with `pip freeze`
into the `requirements.txt` assuming this is all related to the two
tools installed.
Since python installs the binaires in `~/.local/bin/` we also move some
scripts we manually install from `~/.bin/` to that same directory. At
first it seemed like vscode's devcontainers were not having that on the
path. However, when the container has that directory when it starts the
directory does get added to `$PATH` by `~/.profile`. This makes the
whole environment a bit more streamlined.
Postgres got minor updates on Nov9, this starts using the images with
the latest version for our tests, namely 14.10, 15.5 and 16.1.
These minor updates were compatible with Citus.
Sister PR: https://github.com/citusdata/the-process/pull/152
During the creation of the devcontainer we need to add a ppa repository,
which is easiest done via software-properies-common. As turns out this
installes pkexec into the container as a side effect.
When vscode tries to attach a debugger it first checks if pkexec is
installed as this gives a nicer popup asking for elevation of rights to
attach to the process. However, since dev containers don't have a
windowing system running pkexec isn't working as expected and thus
prevents the debugger from attaching.
Without pkexec in the container vscode 'falls back' to plain old sudo
which we can run passwordless in the container.
For pkexec to be removed we need to first purge
software-propertied-common as well as autoremove all packages that were
installed due to the installation of said package. By performing this
all in one step we minimize the size of the layer we are creating.
This change adds a devcontainer configuration to the Citus project. This
devcontainer allows for quick generation of isolated development
environments, either local on the machine of a developer or in a cloud,
like github codepaces.
The devcontainer is updated automatically by github actions when its
configuration changes.
For more detailed instructions on how to quickstart the development in a
container see CONTRIBUTING.md
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