A few months ago I got a new computer and I have been very intentional about deciding what I install on it. From past experience I know that computers that are used as a development environment tend to get messy in no time since one might install all kinds of libraries, frameworks, dependencies, you name … Continue reading Developing inside a Docker container
When I need to create a new custom Docker image, I usually start with a base image (alpine, debian, python, etc, depending on the project), running it in the interactive mode and install the tools and dependencies I will need. Once I get my container the way I want, I create a Dockerfile with all … Continue reading TIL: docker commit
In a large web application, the backend logs can get quite verbose: requests created, sent, processed, received, etc. The list can grow large very quickly depending on how logs are implemented. You can check the logs from a Docker container using docker logs, no need to exec into the container: docker logs <container_id> You can … Continue reading Sending docker container logs to a separate file
I wrote a very simple right-to-the-point Docker introduction post if you're new to Docker. If you want to see your code changes applied right away to a running Docker container, you need to make sure to run the container using the share volumes tag: -v (or --volume). The -v tag expects as a parameter the … Continue reading Docker for development: make local files visible to a container with volume mapping
Docker has been around for a few years but it sounded too complicated and I never knew exactly what problem it was solving. Only recently I learned about it and started using Docker both at work and on my personal projects. I started writing a post explaining some few basic stuff about Docker but it … Continue reading Docker: most used Docker commands
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