Dev start multiuser mode

[gsa88]

There are some issues (#13353 #13255) where users want to be able to run multiple development containers for multiple users on the same host. The script (dev_start_multiuser.sh) was prepared for this purpose.

Using this script, several users work with the apollo project on the same server in my environment and no problems arise.

[MaisJamal]

I want to run multiple instances of Apollo on the same user. Can you please suggest a modification to your code so I can do that?

[gsa88]

I want to run multiple instances of Apollo on the same user. Can you please suggest a modification to your code so I can do that?

Hi MaisJamal. For this, run a script dev_start_multi_same_user.sh as many times as you want to create instances.

After multiple runs of dev_start_multi_same_user.sh for the same user, the new apollo dev containers will have different names (e.g. apollo_dev_user_23, apollo_dev_user_99, etc.). In this case, the dev_into.sh script will not work. To get to a specific container (for example, apollo_dev_user_23), you need to run the following command:

$ xhost +local:root 1>/dev/null 2>&1

$ docker exec \
    -u user \
    -e HISTFILE=/apollo/.dev_bash_hist \
    -it apollo_dev_user_23 \
    /bin/bash

note: set the host username with the -u option of the docker exec command.

[MaisJamal]

I run the script dev_start_multi_same_user.sh many times, But all the containers have the same name: apollo_dev_user, so when the second container start the first one closes.

[gsa88]

I run the script dev_start_multi_same_user.sh many times, But all the containers have the same name: apollo_dev_user, so when the second container start the first one closes.

Could you provide output of dev_start_multi_same_user.sh?

[MaisJamal]

My bad. I was using dev_start_multiuser.sh instead of dev_start_multi_same_user.sh. Now everything works fine.
Thanks a lot for sharing your code and for answering my questions.