My Slow Internet vs. Docker

https://medium.com/google-cloud-platform-developer-advocates/my-slow-internet-vs-docker-7678ae1cae72

by dhruvbhatia • 11 years ago

68 19 11 years ago

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amelius• 11 years ago

I don't using Docker or any of these tools, but I get the feeling this could have been done easily using rsync instead.

allcentury• 11 years ago

So the TL;DR is run your day to day on a VM that has a good internet connection if you use docker. Ok.

navls• 11 years ago

Really just run your day to day on a VM regardless. It's 2015.

danudey• 11 years ago

I run my day to day on a Macbook. I don't feel like wasting my limited resources for such minimal benefit.

If my gaming PC supported PCI passthrough I would though.

voltagex_2• 11 years ago

I'm on an X1 Carbon with 4GB of RAM, so I use Amazon spot instances instead.

vellum• 11 years ago

You can do the same thing with a Digital Ocean droplet. Just make sure you add a swap file to increase the RAM to >=1 GB.

justinsaccount• 11 years ago

Right.. and doing so is just a matter of using --driver digitalocean instead of --driver google

logingone4• 11 years ago

Micro-studio? In London that's a studio. New York micros are London standards.

logingone4• 11 years ago

Disagree? Please point me to usage of the term micro-studio in London.

logingone4• 11 years ago

-3 but the comment isn't faded? How does that work? And while I'm here, what is the downing for? An observation on the different terms used in New York and London - too off topic? Seems a bit excitable.

logingone4• 11 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNPJuJSVmNA

badmadrad• 11 years ago

I would prefer to use LXD for this stuff. I can work in a container that is pretty much a vm. Snapshot and publish that vm to LXC registry and pull it down to another machine with faster internets. And all I need to do install apt-get install lxd. No crazy plugins and long command line stuff.

voltagex_2• 11 years ago

When Docker was new I could download the Ubuntu baseimage with no issues. Now there's so many layers it takes far too long.

jlhawn• 11 years ago

Which Ubuntu image are you using? The official Ubuntu 14.04 image has always been only 4 layers and is about 190MB total size.

chanezon• 11 years ago

https://medium.com/@chanezon/good-post-on-using-docker-cloud... great post, but don't use maven:onbuild for Java projects

tracker12• 11 years ago

Really cool post... though it seems like DigitalOcean, Linode or others might be a better idea if you use the instances more than a few hours a month.

I'm not connection constrained, but my workflow for linux is to mount a drive/directory to a linux instance (virtual or physical) edit with a gui editor locally, and run via an ssh connected cli. Which works pretty well for me.

Anyone familiar with something that can mount a virtual drive in windows or osx to a linux machine over ssh?

jayfk• 11 years ago

Don't know about windows, but you can use NFS on OS X and Linux.

If you mount your working directory exactly like on your host machine, you can even use relative paths in your Dockerfile.

E.g mount /Users/tracker1 from your host on /Users/tracker1 on the VM.

Since your Dockerfile working dir matches on both systems, you can use them as if you were working directly on the machine, like:

ADD ./entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh COPY ./app/code /code

etc.

tracker12• 11 years ago

I didn't know you could NFS over SSH... interesting... Just need a solution for my windows desktop.

https://gist.github.com/proudlygeek/5721498

labianchin• 11 years ago

Also, an alternative to `docker-machine scp` is docker-osx-dev (https://github.com/brikis98/docker-osx-dev). It will rsync a path into the docker-machine host.

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