Asterisk Docker Container

Given our coreos and docker based infrastructure and the fact that there is no official asterisk docker image i needed to make my own docker image to support all of the advanced features i wanted including.

Asterisk docker container.

Even better is that we can build asterisk only once and have the tests run in parallel against those build products. A docker container image is a lightweight standalone executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application. Docker is extremely fast and in a matter of seconds the container is running. It is recommended that you keep the container light and use smallest size for the base image.

This is a perfect use case for running the tests in containers specifically docker on the same host. Is anyone running freepbx as a docker container. Create a terminal session to the running docker container. Even better than that jenkins has built in facilities to help us with container management.

Overview what is a container. Creating asterisk on docker. Creating the base image base image for container from debian buster slim we have chosen debian buster slim for the base image as shown above. Sudo docker exec it asterisk alpine sh the container is named asterisk alpine in this example and sh is the command to execute.

You can use either of aws ec2 or cloud9 ide for setting up docker. There are some hurdles though. There are no results for this search in docker hub. Here are a few reference links that indicate it is possible but nothing about how well it works and if anyone still uses it after the initial neat factor wore off.

Update docker file freepbx 12 0 3 and asterisk 13 1 install works. Does it work well. You can pull the image from dockerhub. Container images become containers at runtime and in the case of docker containers images become containers when they run on docker engine.

Alpine linux and asterisk next set up asterisk. Which is as simple as running. Code runtime system tools system libraries and settings. This post is a simple recipe for how to create an asterisk docker.