Posts for May 2015
Node packages in docker and the node-onbuild container
I've recently been experimenting with ways to run node projects inside of docker, resulting in a new "onbuild" container I'm now using for node projects on Github.
A built image of this container is also available on the docker hub registry at grahamgilchrist\node-onbuild
Faster volume mounts with Docker development
Docker is a great technology, but in a previous post I mentioned the issues boot2docker has on Mac OS X, specifically with volume mounts.
Since a significant proportional of our development team (including myself) develop on Mac OS X, these issues affect us on a daily basis, so I did some digging to find out the causes of this slowdown and what (if anything) can be done to fix it.
To summarise the problem:
Why docker is great
A technology I've been evaluating and testing lately is Docker. It uses Linux container (LXC) technology to provide essentially a native speed linux virtual machine which can be configured via script files (Dockerfiles) and provides a public registry of built-images. The concept is similar to using a virtual machine configured via text files such as vagrant or something similar, except the big bonus is speed, since the native LXC container technology allows direct hardware access on Linux.