config: dockerize repository

[hom3mad3]

Dockerize Repository

This was implemented as an exploration to solve recurring environment issues without impacting our sprint commitments. The PR is intended to start a discussion about improving our development workflow.

Motivation

This PR introduces Docker support to solve persistent development environment challenges our team has been facing:

1. Cross-Platform Consistency: Team members on macOS and Windows regularly encounter setup issues that Linux users don't face, leading to lost development time
2. Python Version Management: We've had recurring problems with team members running different Python versions
3. Dependency Isolation: Ensuring everyone has the exact same environment with all dependencies correctly installed

Implementation Details

• Docker configuration based on our existing Makefile structure
• Creates a consistent, isolated environment that works identically across all operating systems
• Preserves existing workflows while adding Docker as an alternative option

Benefits

• Reduced Onboarding Time: New team members can be productive in minutes rather than potentially hours
• "Works on My Machine" Elimination: All developers work in identical environments
• CI/CD Alignment: Development environment matches CI/CD environment more closely
• Version Locking: Python version and all dependencies locked to exact versions
• Optional Adoption: Can be used alongside existing setup methods (not forcing anyone to change workflow)

TODO / Discussion Points

• How to handle Makefile linting requirements during Docker builds
• Virtual environment interaction with containerized environment
• Making sure it matches our production environments
• Having the production db images, so we are testing with real content
• Testing procedures to validate Docker implementation

Next Steps

I'd appreciate everyone running a quick test of this setup to validate it works across our various development environments.

[hom3mad3]

normal install was too big, not sure if we have special needs or if alpine is good enough?

[partizipation]

Yeah I'm curious if for our apps we would run into issues if we're dev-alpine prod-ubuntu. I guess if it builds then for now the answer is no? Would we need (or want) to dockerize in production at this point, guessing it's less work to just use this for dev for now?

[partizipation]

Impacts PR for specifying python version in adhocracy plus (in a good way): #2993