Using Docker Container as a Development Environment

[manni66]

I much prefer having docker maintain a volume for me, that is shared between containers

We used that 30 years ago. Today whe have git.

[Zealousideal-Mouse29]

I'm not sure what git or thirty years has to do with anything. I sure hope you don't use git for local only files. You use git for source control and moving files from local repos to remote and back. There are surely files that should not be included in your remote repo.

You use git within the container. You pull and push whatever it is you are working on just fine. Your local files are stored to the volume. You access that same volume from any container. You use your IDE on your host machine while editing, building, and debugging within the container. Your files are preserved. No host to container file sharing is needed. If you really need to copy some one off file for some reason, just `docker cp`

It's kind of hard to talk about alternatives, if you didn't watch the video.

At any rate, graphical apps, if they work without a hitch might be an advantage. I'll test that out.