RussTedrake
Remove X server requirement on CI and Deepnote
so that it doesn't need to get installed on the first call to StartMeshcat.
done. I now call RUN /opt/drake/share/drake/setup/deepnote/install_nginx in the Dockerfile, but of course the service is not started each time the dockerfile is provisioned on Deepnote. The result is that the first call to StartMeshcat still says "installing nginx", but it at least returns very fast.
I tried adding RUN systemctl enable nginx to the dockerfile, but learned the docker does use sysctl / system.d. Adding CMD service nginx start didn't seem to get the job done, either.
cc @jwnimmer-tri, in case you have any better ideas. But I'm at least happy that it's faster.
This all sounds fine.
FYI what we do for Drake tutorials is shown here:
https://drake.mit.edu/release_playbook.html#post-release-tutorials-updates
The only slow part is the apt, which we bake into the Docker image like so:
RUN apt-get -q update && apt-get -q install -y --no-install-recommends nginx-light xvfb && apt-get -q clean
We use an init.ipynb to do the install_xvfb. I realize now that it could probably do the install_nginx as well, which would maybe remove the printout from the actual notebooks for you?
