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Or use named volumes. I'm running a dockerized WordPress dev environment on my MacBook with average TTFB's of 40 ms.
A few years ago I set a goal to minimize the number of applications installed bare-metal on my laptop. Everything is containerized, just as the blog describes. There is some initial overhead, and some extra work associated with maintaining the infrastructure, but overall I can report improved reproducibility (due to an isolated and static environment per app). I use a bash alias for each common application. For examp…
With Flakes [2] (experimental feature), you get full reproducibility.
The documentation is spotty and there is a considerable learning curve, but I've switched to NixOS on my laptop and desktop early this year and am mostly very happy with it.
That doesn't cover sandboxing though. I would actually agree that sandboxing / restricting applications (Mac OS style) would be sorely needed on Linux desktop.
Flatpak and Snap are trying to do this. A much saner approach than trying to find or maintain up to date, trustworthy Docker files for applications.
> If you’re using Docker on a Mac and you’ve never tried it on Linux, you owe it to yourself to try it on Linux. So ultimately the recommendation is to install Linux and use it as my daily driver. But Linux does not run on my machine yet.
And MacOS does? Is this some Apple Silicon humble brag? Cuz that's "Apple doesn't allow developers and enthusiasts to do their thing on their own computer that they purchased" not "Linux doesn't run on my machine".
> If you’re using Docker on a Mac and you’ve never tried it on Linux, you owe it to yourself to try it on Linux. So ultimately the recommendation is to install Linux and use it as my daily driver. But Linux does not run on my machine yet.
And MacOS does? Is this some Apple Silicon humble brag? Cuz that's "Apple doesn't allow developers and enthusiasts to do their thing on their own computer that they purchased" not "Linux doesn't run on my machine".
Many developers would consider this Ubuntu 20.04 install that I run on a 9 year old computer to be an accident waiting to happen. But I'm finding this Ubuntu release to be extremely stable even at 3000+ packages.
> If you’re using Docker on a Mac and you’ve never tried it on Linux, you owe it to yourself to try it on Linux. So ultimately the recommendation is to install Linux and use it as my daily driver. But Linux does not run on my machine yet.
And MacOS does? Is this some Apple Silicon humble brag? Cuz that's "Apple doesn't allow developers and enthusiasts to do their thing on their own computer that they purchased" not "Linux doesn't run on my machine".
I'm in the same situation: until I figure (if ever) how to use NixOS and control version my OS, I tend to use Docker for any application with lots of dependencies, specially Python related ones