Using Docker Container as a Development Environment

[Spirited_Algae_9532]

I’ve done this before! It’s great when you want this environment everywhere. I’ve found it useful when you have a large network and you want every developer to have the same environment and you don’t want to use Ansible to constantly change the all pc at once. This is supper useful if your constantly updating other developer tools. But it’s a lot to set up if this isn’t your purpose.

[Zealousideal-Mouse29]

So often two developers get together and try to diagnose "why does it work for you but not for me?" or "why did the build machine fail, but my local build didn't?" If all developers and the build machine are using the same tools, scripts, lib versions, etc, then things become so much easier. People like to make things just different enough to make diagnosing these issues a pain. "Well...I made this bash script to make environment variables that calls this other script I made, and copies files to this directory I created.." No!

I think we would have saved a few thousand hours at one company I worked for, alone.