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Official Docker container on Docker Hub #358
Description
Expected Behavior
Having an official, properly versioned, up-to-date Docker image.
Actual Behavior
There are only some inoffical outdated images.
Steps to Reproduce
Go to hub.docker.com and search around.
SQLCipher version: all of them
Reacted by Scott Weldon, Krystian G. and Tom PoLáKoSz
Activity
sjlombardo commentedon Mar 11, 2020
Hello @alexanderadam - thanks for getting in touch. Given that SQLCipher is typically used as an embedded database (i.e. within an encapsulating application) , could you share some of the use cases where where having a dedicated docker image would be beneficial? I'm hoping that will help us frame the request, goals, etc.
alexanderadam commentedon Mar 12, 2020
No, I have to thank you for your incredible work! 🙏
In my case it's for making an unencrypted backup. But the folks who made the inofficial images obviously might have other use cases I guess.
Some of them are on GitHub, too (i.e. kivsiak, pallocchi, mariotavor, yspreen) in case you want to ask them as well.
sjlombardo commentedon Mar 12, 2020
Thanks @alexanderadam, that is helpful. If I might ask, @kivsiak, @pallocchi, @mariotavor, @yspreen, can you share the scenarios surrounding SQLCipher with Docker?
pallocchi commentedon Mar 12, 2020
Hi! In my case, I have a mobile app which is querying a read-only database, which is filled with static data. So every time the data changes in the repository, a pipeline is recreating and encrypting the database, that's why I needed to make the image. Also is useful for local dev, since is pretty much easier to encrypt and decrypt the database.
yspreen commentedon Mar 19, 2020
I didn't expect to get mentioned here! 😄
I used it for a security analysis of the encryption. The container is used to run a highly parallelized decryption attempt of a single sql db. I basically wanted to test how long the password has to be to be secure.
I'd say the Dockerfile that I came up with is really minimal and straight forward. Feel free to use it to build a continuous integration for this. I only put it on GitHub because of Docker Hub's easy integration for automatic free builds ✌️
@sjlombardo @alexanderadam
yspreen commentedon Mar 19, 2020
(Also my image is not outdated, contrary to what it says in the issue 😇)
501st-alpha1 commentedon Dec 29, 2020
I was looking for this because I am trying to open a SQLCipher 4 database on Debian, which only has packages for SQLCipher 3. And I'd rather have another Docker image than try to compile something from source, haha.
While it would be great to be able to
docker pullan image, a partial solution would be to include a Dockerfile in this repo and let the user build it.@yspreen's image worked for me, with one slight modification that I just submitted a PR for.