Example Applications

Contributing to the Example Applications ๐Ÿฅณ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ˜

We welcome everybody to provide example applications with a Pull Requests on GitHub

Please be aware that in order to achieve the most gain for the community and the goal to keep measurements reproducible and comparable we provide some guidelines for the example applications:

Characteristics

  • All reference images in the usage_scenario.yml โ†’ must be available on dockerhub
  • Containers are not allowed to require volume mounts
  • Containers should follow the naming convention of using gcb- as prefix and - as delimiter
  • Images should follow the naming convention of using gcb_ as prefix and _ as delimiter

Containers

If your application uses of one the service below, please use the recommended containers:

Databases

Interacting with Web Applications

Web Applications

Wordpress

Please do NOT use the official wordpress container for example applications. The container is a breeze when you want to start from scratch, but very picky when you want to overlay an existing filesystem.

To see an example where we use this container and also add some PHP modules / Apache modules have a look at our PHP-Apache Example Application