Stream: dev

Topic: fast redeploy with docker compose

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 04 2025 at 20:56):

  dataverse:
    container_name: "dataverse"
    hostname: dataverse
    build:
      dockerfile: ./dataverse/Dockerfile
      args:
        - BASE_VERSION=${BASE_VERSION:-6.6-noble}
        - DATAVERSE_WAR_URL=${DATAVERSE_WAR_URL:-https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/download/v6.6/dataverse-6.6.war}
        - USER_ID=${USER_ID:-1000}
        - GROUP_ID=${GROUP_ID:-1000}

From @Eryk Kulikowski at https://github.com/libis/rdm-integration/blob/bca3826674a426522fdd75437b0e4ff54234f6e6/docker-compose.yml#L66

Oliver Bertuch (Nov 07 2025 at 09:57):

What I like most in that repo: the modularized approach to setup. @Eryk Kulikowski this would be good to have in upstream, too!

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 07 2025 at 11:33):

Absolutely. That compose file was something we only touched on during tech hours but I'd love to hear more.

Eryk Kulikowski (Nov 07 2025 at 11:57):

I just opened a PR that might be interesting for the upstream repo: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/11961

It adds fast-redeploy scripts for container-based development that reduce iteration time from ~54s to ~12s (4.5x faster). The workflow uses exploded WAR deployment with incremental compilation and Payara's asadmin deploy --force for hot redeployment without container restarts.

Key features:

• Three scripts: dev-start-frd.sh (setup), dev-frd.sh (iterate), dev-down-frd.sh (shutdown)
• Zero infrastructure changes, completely optional
• Works with any editor (not IDE-dependent)

This could be a good topic for tech hours - we could discuss what developer workflow improvements would be valuable to include in the mainstream Dataverse repo.

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 07 2025 at 11:58):

@Eryk Kulikowski THANK YOU!

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 07 2025 at 11:58):

And yes, I'd love to hear from other developers any tips and tricks to speed up development!

Oliver Bertuch (Nov 10 2025 at 09:39):

@Eryk Kulikowski I really like what you did in your PR! Thanks for testing out all of this stuff and looking into making it work!

Oliver Bertuch (Nov 10 2025 at 09:39):

I have a few suggestions and maybe we should discuss them here in chat or during the next containerization meeting.

Oliver Bertuch (Nov 10 2025 at 09:58):

Braindump / Notes to self:

• Once upon a time we wanted to start a docker-related directory /docker/... in the repo. Maybe this is the perfect opportunity to kickstart it?
• I don't see much in there that wouldn't be possible with the Maven plugins. We should try to align both ways.
• I hear you on the persistence.xml bit - it's been a long standing issue to get rid of that and have devs use Flyway properly.
• For the memory: thinking about using an environment variable instead of the override file. Usable from Maven and compose CLI and doesn't need a wrapper script just to activate the override file.
• Cargo Plugin Remote?, cargo.glassfish.deploy.arg.force
• Watch Background Job?
• DMP Watch Mode - may need fixes for our situation
• https://docs.docker.com/compose/how-tos/file-watch
• Move away from DMP to run things? https://github.com/chonton/compose-maven-plugin

Last updated: Jan 09 2026 at 14:18 UTC