I have been using a few shell scripts for turbocharging development using Docker and today I have released the first version of a simple tool I call “dev”. Usage is very very simple.

$ dev up

Starting up container for spike

spike-dev (43c5c1) running!

To use this container please attach to it with:

$ docker attach spike-dev

$ docker attach spike-dev

docker:dev:spike ~

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I have made a simple asciinema recording describing the process of setting up and tearing down these containers. The development environments have the code you are working on mounted to ~/dev in the container.

The containers are defined by a simple manifest file in yaml:

base: xena/base

repopath: github.com/Xe/test

golang: false

ssh: true

user: xena

projname: test

Right now dev is a very immature tool and currently Works For Me ™. If you have any issues with it or questions about it, please open an issue on its GitHub issue tracker.

Thanks for taking a look at it and please let me know if it works for you too!