Description

Run Emacs in docker containers!

This project provides different docker images:

• The main images (~500MB) only contain the runtime dependencies for Emacs to run.
• The -dev variants (~1400MB) also contain the build dependencies, the Emacs source (in /opt/emacs), and additional tools such as Cask, git and Python.
• The -alpine variants (~200MB) follow the same logic as the main images but are based on Alpine Linux.
• The -ci and -alpine-ci variants are based on the main and `'alpine' images respectively. They add some basic tools to make CI easier, e.g. bash, bzip2, git, make, and tar.

Tags

• master-alpine-ci
• 27.0-alpine-ci, 27-alpine-ci
• 26.3-alpine-ci, 26-alpine-ci, alpine-ci
• 26.2-alpine-ci
• 26.1-alpine-ci
• 25.3-alpine-ci, 25-alpine-ci
• 25.2-alpine-ci
• 25.1-ci
• 24.5-ci, 24-ci
• 24.4-ci
• 24.3-ci
• 24.2-ci
• 24.1-ci
• 23.4-ci, 23-ci

Usage

Console

docker run -it --rm olanilsson/emacs

GUI

xhost +local:root # WARN: this comes with security issues
docker run -it --rm -e DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix olanilsson/emacs

Alternatives

• flycheck/emacs-cask: collection of docker images containing a minimal Emacs compiled from source with Cask.
• flycheck/emacs-travis: makefile which provides targets to install Emacs stable and emacs-snapshot, Texinfo and Cask.
• jgkamat/airy-docker-emacs: alpine-based docker images that have Emacs installed through the package manager.
• JAremko/docker-emacs: collection of docker images with focus on GUI usage.
• rejeep/evm: pre-built Emacs binaries.

Contributions

They are very welcome! The basic workflow is as follow:

• Modify images.yml.
• Modify files inside the /templates directory.
• Run bin/images generate to spread the changes everywhere.