Please provide official docker image

[surajbarkale]

There is already a linux binary published with every release. It would greatly simplify our workflow if a docker image is also published with the release. Most of the CI systems are now using Docker for specifying tool versions and not having oficial firebase-tools image is causing extra work.

[samtstern]

We were hoping that the standalone CLI would make it very easy to include Firebase in your existing Docker image.

Just curious what would you expect the environment in the Docker image to be like? Just enough to run Firebase commands or enough to also run your unit tests, etc?

[samtstern]

@mbleigh I think you meant to comment that on #1645

[surajbarkale]

@samtstern I am expecting an image that is enough to run firebase commands. It is easier to use it as base image in case we need to extend it.
We are trying appdistribution in one of the internal apps and creating a separate docker image is just duplicate work.

[samtstern]

@surajbarkale so maybe something like Debian + the Firebase CLI? Or would you want more/less than that?

[surajbarkale]

Either debian + cli or scratch + cli image is OK.

[samtstern]

@surajbarkale thanks for all the feedback. I put this on our feature request list, it ties in nicely to some things we want to do around supporting CI systems so I do think we will do this eventually.

[beshkenadze]

I really want to have a docker image for github actions. It will help to use Firebase Hosting with GitHub Builds Tools.