add Containerfile based on CentOS Stream 9

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -240,3 +240,42 @@ jobs:
         if: always()
         run: env -0 | sort -z | tr '\0' '\n'
         shell: bash
+
+  container:
+    name: Container image
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Build Containerfile
+        run: |
+          docker build -f ./Containerfile -t local/qpid-cpp:local .
+
+      - name: Run qpidd --help
+        run: |
+          docker run --rm local/qpid-cpp:local /usr/sbin/qpidd --help
+
+      - name: Start qpidd
+        run: |
+          docker run --name qpidd -d --rm local/qpid-cpp:local /usr/sbin/qpidd
+
+      - name: Setup python 2.7
+        id: python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: 2.7
+          architecture: x64
+
+      - name: Fetch qpid-python from git
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          repository: apache/qpid-python
+          ref: main
+          path: qpid-python
+
+      - name: Run qpid-python tests against the container
+        run: |
+          ${{ steps.python.outputs.python-path }} -m pip install qpid-tools qpid-qmf --no-deps 
+          ${{ steps.python.outputs.python-path }} qpid-python-test -m qpid_tests
+        working-directory: qpid-python

Containerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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+#
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+# under the License.
+#
+
+FROM quay.io/centos/centos:stream9 as builder
+
+RUN dnf -y install epel-release 'dnf-command(config-manager)'
+RUN dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
+
+# I am referring to the CentOS7 package (.spec file in the src.rpm) to look up dependencies
+#  https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1180279
+# TODO seemingly unavailable packages:
+#  xqilla-devel
+
+RUN dnf -y --setopt=install_weak_deps=0 --setopt=tsflags=nodocs install \
+    rpm-build \
+    gcc gcc-c++ make cmake \
+    boost-devel boost-filesystem boost-program-options \
+    xerces-c-devel \
+    rdma-core-devel \
+    libdb-devel libdb-cxx-devel libaio-devel \
+    qpid-proton-c-devel \
+    swig perl-devel python3-devel ruby-devel rubygem-rexml \
+    libuuid-devel nss-devel nspr-devel nss-tools cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-lib cyrus-sasl-devel \
+    wget tar patch findutils git pkgconfig
+
+# Workaround for latest release of qpid-python being incompatible with python 3
+WORKDIR /build
+RUN git clone https://github.com/apache/qpid-python.git \
+    && cd qpid-python \
+    && python3 setup.py install
+
+# git clone https://github.com/apache/qpid-cpp.git
+COPY . .
+RUN eval "$(rpmbuild --eval '%set_build_flags')" \
+    && cmake -S . -B cmake-build \
+        -DBUILD_DOCS=OFF \
+        -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
+        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
+        -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python3 \
+    && cmake --build "cmake-build" --parallel "$(nproc)" --verbose \
+    && cmake --install "cmake-build"
+
+EXPOSE 5672
+CMD ["/usr/sbin/qpidd"]