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Discussion on: Are you using Docker for local development?

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Emmanuel Obogbaimhe • Edited

For me at my company we use it for local development because it just makes things easy. We work with distributed systems and there are different components so it's a headache to setup and build constantly.

So we containerize each component and just start and stop the containers as we need. Plus it makes on boarding new developers less of a hassle.

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That Blair Guy

Amen on the ease of on-boarding.

  1. Install docker
  2. clone the project from github
  3. docker-compose up

And that's it, the entire tech stack is ready to go.

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Mateusz Bełczowski

That's one of the main benefits for me - it makes the process of on boarding much easier.

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Frank Font

Onboarding new developers was easy at my previous employer because of this. New hires up and running/compiling etc everything and anything in an hour instead of a week.