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Support running Sdk and devcluster in a container on windows
It would be very helpful for devops scenarios to 1) be able to publish an app to a remote cluster from inside a container and 2) run a dev cluster inside a container for testing purposes.
As I understand it, the sdk/runtime is able to run in a container on other platforms than windows, but I have not been able to get it to install on a windows container.
I understand this is also a work in progress but it would be cool if the progress/things remaining could be tracked here on GitHub as well, so what are currently the things that are missing for this to work?
We'll look into if this is feasible and work on it in the future. We're aware it doesn't work, but we think this is a valid scenario.
Note that there is an issue in the old repo that others are tracking with a similar use case: Error installing Service Fabric Runtime in windowsservercore:1709 docker container
This specifically references the runtime that is required by the SDK. I assume the same problems (kernel driver dependency on Windows) drives the lack of local clusters in containers as well.
This feature would allow a real CI pipeline to be utilized without driving everyone using Service Fabric to Linux-based clusters since this behavior is natively supported on Linux.
From the other issue, @rishirsinha and @VipulM-MSFT were assigned.
Yep, it's something we're pushing for however this isn't a simple change so we'll update this issue once we understand how it will be prioritized in future releases.
So is this still on the radar? We'd like to use this to run E2E tests as well within the container
