Small changes in theme without rebuilding docker

[kostisalex]

Hey everybody!
I was wondering if there is a direct and short way to make changes to tutor theme (eg indigo or whatever), without having to make the whole long process of rebuilding the images?

Has anyone ever tried to change the deployed files (html, css, images …) inside the docker (without the need of rebuild) and if yes, what is the process?
Thank you in advance

[regis]

Hi! This question was raised multiple times here:

Theme installation without building a Docker image

Hi tutor community. Problem Theme installation process, as documented on the indigo repo, requires building a new openedx docker image and restarting the platform. I need to be able to install, modify and customize a theme without building an image, avoiding the build time and downtime of the platform. The goal being better development experience and rather seamless theme change in a software as a service scenario. Possible solution As I inspected the theme installation process, I reckon I c…

Developing (not deploying) New Themes on tutor

We are able to deploy the already developed themes on tutor, by following the documentation. If we need to develop a new theme, are there ways to test the themes without having to rebuild the openedx image to keep testing our intermediate changes? or is it better to develop the theme outside of tutor and finally deploy here? Thanks!

Dynamic way to apply themes with Kubernetes

Hi All, We were so far using a Single EC2 Instance for running our openedx instance. We were looking favourably at using Kubernetes for a scalable deployment. As a starting point we are looking at the below two guides, one for local and another for production The only option at this point of time, it seems is to build the docker images(of cms and lms) after applying the theme and push it to a docker repository and then use the custo images with tutor k8s Is there any alternate solution …

Basically, you should make changes to your theme in development mode, and take advantage of the watchthemes command, which is fast: Changing the appearance of Open edX — Tutor documentation
Once you feel confident that your theme is ready, you should build the new image and push it to production.

[kostisalex]

Thank you! It works great!