I’m highly jealous of teams that can containerize all their build tools.
If you deal with proprietary toolchains that are tens of gigabytes (Windows WDK, Xilinx Vivado/Vitis) it’s just untenable, and that’s before even mentioning licensing. Even Azure doesn’t have a great solution for WDK development. It’s hard to feel like we’re not being left behind.
Bind mounting the tools into the container is an option but at that point you’re using the container just because that’s what your CI expects, not because it’s any better or more reproducible than a raw Jenkins shell script.
If you deal with proprietary toolchains that are tens of gigabytes (Windows WDK, Xilinx Vivado/Vitis) it’s just untenable, and that’s before even mentioning licensing. Even Azure doesn’t have a great solution for WDK development. It’s hard to feel like we’re not being left behind.
Bind mounting the tools into the container is an option but at that point you’re using the container just because that’s what your CI expects, not because it’s any better or more reproducible than a raw Jenkins shell script.