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Discussion on: Are you using Docker for local development?

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Nguyen Kim Son

In my team we have started going “full” docker at first: the local environment can be run in a big docker-compose file. The host code repository is mounted in docker so we can use IDE comfortably.

1 or 2 years later we decide to use a somewhat “hybrid” setup with only some complicated-to-setup components run inside Docker. The main reason is performance and battery: file syncing between Mac-docker has always been a weak point and Docker consumes battery as crazy (compared to the same code run on host). Even if we usually have the power plugged in, this is not good for environment generally 😕.

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Mateusz Bełczowski

Yes, I feel that pain, so I'm also thinking of using the hybrid approach. I want to "docker-compose up" things like database, queues, services that do not require frequent code changes and leave the rest on the host for simplicity :)