Vapor 4 Docker environment

With Vapor 4 comes a whole host of improvements:

• Overhaul of Fluent
• Support for Apple's new Swift-Log API as the default logger
• HTTP/2 support with SwiftNIO v2

Vapor 4 is still only in beta.
For the latest stable release see my Vapor 3 Docker image

Image details

• Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic
• Swift 5.1.2
• Vapor 4 Beta

Option 1. Build Docker Image

• From within the directory of the Dockerfile execute the following command to build the image

docker build -t vapor4 .

• To run with bash and a shared volume

docker run -v <host_path>:<container_path> -ti vapor4:latest bash

Option 2. Pull image from Docker Hub

• Go to the repository page bryankp/vapor4
• Pull the latest image

docker pull bryankp/vapor4:latest

• To run with bash and a shared volume

docker run -v <host_path>:<container_path> -ti bryankp/vapor4:latest bash

Further Details

• Swift Official Docker Images
• For troubleshooting issues see the Vapor4 Docs
• To use the swift repl while running docker on macos the container needs to be run with the following flag --privileged
  • Example docker run --privileged -v <host_path>:<container_path> -ti bryankp/swift_vapor:latest bash
  • see apple/swift-docker#9