Using docker for development

August 12, 2021 ยท View on GitHub

Docker for development environment

  • Install Docker.
  • Clone this repo by running git clone https://github.com/bigbinary/wheel.git.
  • cd wheel
  • If using it for the first time, run docker-compose build to build the images.
  • Run docker-compose run --rm web bin/setup to create and seed the database.
  • Run docker-compose up to start the application and get things up and running.
  • From now onwards, we can just run docker-compose up from within the root of the wheel directory to bring up the application.

Build images without using cache

While re-building images, docker tries to find it's layers in the cache, which might bring-in stale layers.

# this forces docker to not use cached image layers
docker-compose build --no-cache

Run docker ps -a | grep wheel to get containers related to wheel. Then run docker rm -f $(docker ps -a | grep wheel | awk '{print \$1}') to delete them.

Run docker images | grep wheel to get images related to wheel. Then run docker rmi -f $(docker images | grep wheel | awk '{print \$3}') to delete them.

Run docker volume ls | grep wheel to get volumes related to wheel. Then run docker volume rm -f $(docker volume ls | grep wheel | awk '{print \$2}') to delete them.

Steps to nuke all data and start fresh

If you want to try out something slightly more daring, yet effective, then run the following single line command to wipe all of the docker data including containers, images, volumes.

Warning: The following command will wipe all of docker data of all local docker projects and containers:

docker rm -f $(docker ps -a -q) && docker rmi -f $(docker images -q) && docker volume rm -f $(docker volume ls -q)
docker-compose up --build

Run docker system prune -a -f --volumes to remove all containers, networks, images (both dangling and unreferenced), and volumes.