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Dockerize your Development Environment

Niall Maher on April 15, 2020

With Visual Studio Code A problem I had within our teams in my last gig was running projects consistently across multiple operating syst...

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Jeff Lindholm • Apr 21 '20

Using powershell:
I just do dev-here node:latest it will download the image mount the current directory to /code in the container and you can edit locally update to git etc. Works for any container that you want, I use it for rust, donet core, node, etc.

function dev-here($lang, $port = 8000) {
    if ($lang -eq '') {
        echo 'usage is dev-here <container name>'
        return
    }
    $args = 'bash'
    if ($lang -eq 'python') {
        $args = "bash"
        # $args = "bash -c 'cd code && pip install -r requirements.txt && bash'"
    }
    $msg = $lang + ' opening port ' + $port + ' running ' + $args
    echo $msg
    echo "docker run --rm -it -e USER=dev -p ${port}:${port} -v ${PWD}:/code $lang $args"
    docker run --rm -it -e USER=dev -p ${port}:${port} -v ${PWD}:/code $lang $args
}

Niall Maher • Apr 21 '20

Nice well then all this article would give you is all the plugins out of the box too. This is a really smart script 💜

Erik Nelson • Apr 21 '20

Nice post, I was going to write one along these lines but now I don't have to!

I actually prefer this workflow in lieu using rvm, nvm, etc. these days. You can use a Docker Compose file too, which is handy for apps with more complicated dependencies.

Niall Maher • Apr 21 '20

I do the exact same! I'm wondering why more OSS communities don't do the same. It's such an easy way to get up and running.

Niko Mendo • Apr 21 '20

Excellent article, man. Super useful and super easy.

Niall Maher • Apr 21 '20

Thanks!

YORO Ange Carmel • Apr 16 '20

Thank for the useful post

Niall Maher • Apr 16 '20

Glad it was useful at least 💜

Ramiro Berrelleza • Apr 16 '20 • Edited

This is pretty cool, love the format! I'm the maintainer of a couple of open source projects focused on moving dev environments to containers in Kubernetes, would love your thoughts on them!

Niall Maher • Apr 17 '20

Oh nice I'll take a look over the day 😁

AndrWeisR • Jan 6 '21

The source of your app is in the container, right? How do you update the source in an external repo? Do you just push to github from within the container?
Do you have visibility of the source files in the host operating system?

Arnau • Apr 21 '20

What theme are you using in VScode?

Niall Maher • Apr 21 '20

Synthwave '84 personally, but for the video, I think I used Cobalt

Arnau • Apr 23 '20

Thanks! These are awesome :)

Anibal • Apr 21 '20

Hi !
Devilbox is a great alternative to newbies, to use Docker with some benefits and very easy

Niall Maher • Apr 21 '20

I've never seen Devilbox before I will take a look

Anibal • Apr 21 '20

I've been using it for a long time. It's very comfortable to use ;)
I use docker and kubernetes standalone too, but to my PHP development environment I use devilbox :)

LukeBillo • Apr 16 '20

Excellent post! I think you're one of the first people I've seen put both video and text explanation- although I don't exactly go far and wide around dev.to.

The extra effort is greatly appreciated, as I usually like to read first and watch later when I know I'm interested. Thanks :)