iotedgehubdev should be a self-contained docker container

[stewartadam]

iotedgehubdev currently requires the user to install Python no matter their development language, which can cause unnecessary friction; particularly since iotedgehubdev requires a specific, older version of Python (<3.8).

Many OSs package more recent versions of Python, requiring the user to take special action to parallel install or downgrade their installations. On Windows, the Python.org homepage doesn't even offer binaries for the latest Python 3.7.10 release which is a security fix.

iotedgedev should be packaged up as a Docker container which can run docker-in-docker or simply pass through commands to the host's Docker socket.

[stewartadam]

@mhshami01 can you share why this was closed?

[stewartadam]

Same issue with docker-compose dependencies, the Desktop app gets updated and breaks dependencies in PyPI:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement docker-compose==1.28.5 (from iotedgehubdev>=0.8.0->iotedgedev) (from versions: 1.1.0rc1, 1.1.0rc2, 1.1.0, 1.2.0rc1, 1.2.0rc2, 1.2.0rc3, 1.2.0rc4, 1.2.0, 1.3.0rc1, 1.3.0rc2, 1.3.0rc3, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4.0rc1, 1.4.0rc2, 1.4.0rc3, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.5.0rc1, 1.5.0rc2, 1.5.0rc3, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.6.0rc1, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.7.0rc1, 1.7.0rc2, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.8.0rc1, 1.8.0rc2, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.9.0rc1, 1.9.0rc2, 1.9.0rc3, 1.9.0rc4, 1.9.0, 1.10.0rc1, 1.10.0rc2, 1.10.0, 1.10.1, 1.11.0rc1, 1.11.0, 1.11.1, 1.11.2, 1.12.0rc1, 1.12.0rc2, 1.12.0, 1.13.0rc1, 1.13.0, 1.14.0rc1, 1.14.0rc2, 1.14.0, 1.15.0rc1, 1.15.0, 1.16.0rc1, 1.16.0rc2, 1.16.0, 1.16.1, 1.17.0rc1, 1.17.0, 1.17.1, 1.18.0rc1, 1.18.0rc2, 1.18.0, 1.19.0rc1, 1.19.0rc2, 1.19.0rc3, 1.19.0, 1.20.0rc1, 1.20.0rc2, 1.20.0, 1.20.1, 1.21.0rc1, 1.21.0, 1.21.1, 1.21.2, 1.22.0rc1, 1.22.0rc2, 1.22.0, 1.23.0rc1, 1.23.0rc2, 1.23.0rc3, 1.23.0, 1.23.1, 1.23.2, 1.24.0rc1, 1.24.0rc3, 1.24.0, 1.24.1, 1.25.0rc1, 1.25.0rc2, 1.25.0rc3, 1.25.0rc4, 1.25.0, 1.25.1rc1, 1.25.1, 1.25.2rc1, 1.25.2rc2, 1.25.2, 1.25.3, 1.25.4rc1, 1.25.4rc2, 1.25.4, 1.25.5rc1, 1.25.5, 1.26.0.dev0, 1.26.0rc1, 1.26.0rc3, 1.26.0rc4, 1.26.0rc5, 1.26.0, 1.26.1, 1.26.2)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for docker-compose==1.28.5 (from iotedgehubdev>=0.8.0->iotedgedev)

More reasons to have a self-contained docker image with the specific versions iotedgehubdev needs.

[derSchtefan]

It might also have prevented the recent issues with iotedgehubdev being a false positive detection as being a virus/worm that have plagued some corporate devs lately. (We ran into this issue a month ago)

[tugbakara]

I got the same error when I tried to run this pip install --upgrade iotedgehubdev in terminal (came from there ):
No matching distribution found for docker-compose==1.28.5 (from iotedgehubdev)
To deal with this issue do I have to customized Docker?