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Automatically build after file change

I’m playing a lot with Docker lately. Building images, and then rebuilding, and then building again… It’s pretty boring. To automate this task a little I used inotify to build automatically after I changed any file. This trick could be used in many different situations. On Linux You will need inotify-tools package: Install inotify-tools on Linux sudo apt-get install -y inotify-tools Then run something like this: ...

2016-02-23 · 1 min · Tom
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How to install and use Docker Compose

A quick guide to installing and using Docker Compose for automating multi-container Docker applications, including command examples and a sample configuration file.

2016-02-12 · 2 min · Tom
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Manual installation of Docker on Debian/Ubuntu

I’ve played with Docker a little in it early days but didn’t stick for longer with it. It’s stable now so I wanted to check how it’s running now. I really can’t accept this method of installation: curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh I think that world is going to it’s end when I see such scritps… I prefer to do this manually, knowing exactly what I have to do. Install prerequisites: ...

2016-02-11 · 2 min · Tom
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Some useful commands in Docker

I started playing with Docker and here I will write some commands that where not so obvious at beginning 😃 List running containers: docker ps List also not running containers: docker ps -a Remove all containers (be careful with that): docker rm $(docker ps -a -q) Remove all images: docker rmi $(docker images -q) Docker won’t remove any old volumes used by containers, so after some time you may be interested in deleting them all: ...

2016-02-11 · 1 min · Tom