Try docker image with biber

Author: PHPirates

.travis.yml

@@ -1,37 +1,8 @@
-# We test each method for building LaTeX in a separate job.
-jobs:
-  include:
-    # Each script call is a separate job.
-    - stage: tectonic-docker
-      language: generic
-      sudo: required
-      services: docker
-      script: chmod +x $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/test/compile-1a.sh && $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/test/compile-1a.sh
-    - stage: tectonic-miniconda
-      language: generic
-      script: chmod +x $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/test/compile-1.sh && $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/test/compile-1.sh
-      cache:
-        directories:
-          - $HOME/miniconda
-          - $HOME/.cache/Tectonic
-    - stage: texlive-pdflatex
-      language: generic
-      script: chmod +x $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/test/compile-2.sh && $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/test/compile-2.sh
-      cache:
-        directories:
-          - /tmp/texlive
-          - $HOME/.texlive
-    - stage: tinytex
-      language: r
-      sudo: true
-      latex: false
-      pandoc: false
-      warnings_are_errors: false
-      install: echo "The install step is required but does nothing now."
-      script: chmod +x $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/test/compile-3.sh && $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/test/compile-3.sh
-      cache:
-        directories:
-          - packages
-          - /tmp/texlive
-          - $HOME/.texlive
-          - $HOME/.TinyTex
+sudo: required
+language: generic
+services: docker
+
+script:
+- docker pull dxjoke/tectonic-docker:personal
+- docker run --mount src=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/src,target=/usr/src/tex,type=bind dxjoke/tectonic-docker
+  /bin/sh -c "tectonic --keep-intermediates --reruns 0 biber-mwe.tex; biber biber-mwe; tectonic biber-mwe.tex"

1a-tectonic-docker/.travis.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 sudo: required
-
 language: generic
 services: docker
 

src/biber-mwe.tex

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+\documentclass{article}
+
+\usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}
+
+\usepackage[backend=biber, natbib=true]{biblatex}
+\addbibresource{books.bib}
+
+\begin{document}
+    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet~\citep{book1}.
+    At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum~\citet{knuth1990}.
+    \printbibliography
+\end{document}

src/books.bib

@@ -2,4 +2,12 @@ @article{book1
     author = {A.Nonymous},
     title = {TI TLE},
     year = {2017},
+}
+
+@Book{knuth1990,
+    author    = {Knuth, Donald E.},
+    title     = {The {\TeX}book},
+    year      = {1990},
+    isbn      = {0-201-13447-0},
+    publisher = {Addison\,\textendash\,Wesley},
 }