Apt-cacher with Docker

I have been working with docker from www.docker.io for couple of weeks and I love it.  I have made containers for Postgres w/ postgis extensions, Accumulo/HDFS/Zookeeper running pseudo-distributed, geoserver and as of yesterday, an apt-cacher for our Ubuntu 14.04 workstations at the office.  Here is all you need!

You can get the /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf from an ubuntu system after installing the apt-cacher package.

#
# example ubuntu 14.04 apt-cacher
#

FROM ubuntu:14.04
MAINTAINER championofcyrodiil.blogspot.com

USER root
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -y -q install apt-cacher
ADD apt-cacher.conf /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf
ADD start-cacher.sh /root/start-cacher.sh
RUN chmod +x /root/start-cacher.sh
EXPOSE 3142


#Default Docker Run Comamnd(s)
CMD ["/root/start-cacher.sh"]


And of course, the 'start-cacher.sh' bash script.  Make sure it has been chmod +x so it's executable.

#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/apt-cacher -R 3 -d -p /var/run/apt-cacher.pid
tail -f /var/log/apt-cacher/access.log
wait


Once that is done, you will want to place all three files in to a single folder, cd to that folder and build the docker image, here is my example:


 $ sudo docker build -t local:apt-cacher .

Note the period at the end to specify the context of the current directory with the scripts.  Next it is time to run the container, make sure the host (-h) matches the daemon listening host specified in /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf.

$ sudo docker run -d -p 3142:3142 -h apt-cacher local:apt-cacher

$ sudo docker ps -sl

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                    NAMES               SIZE

7b6a7ff25691        local:apt-cacher    /root/start-cacher.s   18 hours ago        Up 18 hours         0.0.0.0:3142->3142/tcp   clever_hoover       361.4 MB

For client systems to use the proxy, add the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy with the contents:

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://$DOCKERHOST:3142";

Like so,

$ sudo echo 'Acquire::http::Proxy "http://:3142";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy