Notes on how to get systemd running to install chromium

basic_checks_Sloetjes.yml

@@ -36,3 +36,16 @@
       pip:
         name: selenium
         state: present
+
+# Start the container in privileged mode with:
+# docker run --privileged --cgroupns=host -d -v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:rw dev /lib/systemd/systemd
+# systemctl start snapd
+# systemctl start udev
+# snap install chromium
+# You can use ansible.community.docker to run the container, then do all the above stuff
+# docker_container_exec might be useful
+#
+# Translate the docker run command into the docker_container ansible module with these args:
+# -v | volumes:
+# --cgroupns | cgroupns_mode:
+# -d | detach: true

docker/dev/Dockerfile

@@ -8,5 +8,8 @@ RUN sed -i 's/#PasswordAuthentication yes/PasswordAuthentication no/' /etc/ssh/s
 RUN sed -i 's/#KbdInteractiveAuthentication yes/KbdInteractiveAuthentication no/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
 ADD authorized_keys /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
 RUN chmod 600 /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
+# Ansible
 EXPOSE 22
+# Chromedriver
+EXPOSE 9515
 CMD ["/usr/sbin/sshd", "-D"]

docker/dev/run.sh

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # Run the docker container
-docker run -p 2222:22 -d dev
+# This will get systemd up enough to run snapd
+# See: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/release-notes/#bug-fixes-and-minor-changes
+# docker run --privileged --cgroupns=host -d -v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:rw dev /lib/systemd/systemd
+docker run -p 2222:22 -p 9515:9515 -d dev