DEV Community

Discussion on: Docker Guide - Part 1

Collapse
 
drminnaar profile image
Douglas Minnaar

Thank you for the positive feedback! I'm continuously updating my docker guide (and other guides too) content on github. It's great to hear that you've played with Docker. That's how it started out for me too. However, Docker has now become core to my development environment. For example, I no longer install databases (SQL and NoSQL) locally. Nor do I install web servers (apache and nginx) locally. I try to run as much as possible from containers. This has resulted in my dev machine always being clean and isolated from all these other software packages. It has allowed me to experiment with different versions of various programming runtimes or database versions without having to install/uninstall/reinstall a single thing. Therefore, I encourage you to play more :)