A Quick Guide to Building a Custom Docker Image for CI

Most of today’s popular CI services support running jobs in arbitrary Docker containers. In this post, I’ll describe why Docker is such a great fit for CI and how it can be made even better with custom images.

Dockerizing an ASP.NET + React App

My team has started working on a new web application, and we’ve been asked to use ASP.NET for the backend. We chose to use React for the frontend because we’ve had significant success with React at Atomic, and we wanted to leverage some existing UI components that were built in React. We try to avoid […]

Docker for Mac: Overcoming Slow Mounted Volumes with Visual Studio Code

A couple of years ago, Will Pleasant-Ryan wrote Docker for Mac: Overcoming Slow Mounted Volumes, describing his desire to use Docker for local development. He talked about some of the filesystem performance problems that can arise when using a shared volume from the host machine on Mac OS X, along with some potential workarounds and […]

A Gentle Introduction to Local Development with Docker Compose

Getting started with Docker can be a bit overwhelming. There are images, containers, Dockerfiles, docker-compose, etc. In this post, I’ll give a quick introduction to using docker-compose with PHP and MySQL.

Docker Command-Line Tips for Beginners

While I often utilize Docker as part of a hosting and deployment system, I also use it locally for all sorts of exploration, spikes, and development. There are a couple of especially useful patterns and invocations that I show to people when I am introducing them to Docker and its usage.

A Docker Pipeline for Mirroring & Archiving a Website

I monitor a handful of websites with some critical information on them. I also have a Synology NAS. Here’s how I created a pipeline for mirroring and archiving these key sites onto my NAS.

Local HTTPS During Development with Docker

When developing a Slack bot or some other webhook, an HTTPS connection is often required. This can make it hard to develop and test on your local machine. For one project, I found myself pushing code to a test server every time I wanted to run it, which worked, but was annoying. So I went […]

Docker for Mac: Overcoming Slow Mounted Volumes

For about two years, I’ve wanted to use Docker for local development. Hypothetically, it offers all the benefits of virtualized development environments like Vagrant (stable, re-creatable, isolated, etc.) but requires fewer resources.

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