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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