Engineering
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Containerize Your Go Developer Environment – Part 1
When joining a development team, it takes some time to become productive. This is usually a combination of learning the code base and getting your environment setup. Often there will be an onboarding document of some sort for setting up your environment but in my experience, this is never up to date and you always have to ask someone for help with what tools are needed.
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Multi-arch build, what about CircleCI?
Following the previous article where we saw how to build multi arch images using GitHub Actions, we will now show how to do the same thing using another CI. In this article, we’ll consider CircleCI, which is one of the most used CI SaaS.
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How to Build and Test Your Docker Images in the Cloud with Docker Hub
In this article, we’ll walk through deploying our code to the cloud, how to use Docker Hub to build our images when we push to GitHub and how to use Docker Hub to automate running tests.
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Docker Desktop: WSL 2 Best practices
Docker Desktop WSL 2 backend has now been available for a few months for Windows 10 insider users and Microsoft just released WSL 2 on the Release Preview channel (which means GA is very close). We and our early users have accumulated some experience working with it and are excited to share a few best practices to implement in your Linux container projects!
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Multi-arch build and images, the simple way
ild once, deploy anywhere” is really nice on the paper but if you want to use ARM targets to reduce your bill, such as Raspberry Pis and AWS A1 instances, or even keep using your old i386 servers, deploying everywhere can become a tricky problem as you need to build your software for these platforms. To fix this problem, Docker introduced the principle of multi-arch builds and we’ll see how to use this and put it into production.
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Speed Up Your Development Flow With These Dockerfile Best Practices
The Dockerfile is the starting point for creating a Docker image. The file format provides a well defined set of directives which allow you to copy files or folders, run commands, set environment variables, and do other tasks required to create a container image. It’s really important to craft your Dockerfile well to keep the resulting image secure, small, quick to build, and quick to update.
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Advanced Dockerfiles: Faster Builds and Smaller Images Using BuildKit and Multistage Builds
Multistage builds feature in Dockerfiles enables you to create smaller container images with better caching and smaller security footprint. In this blog post, I’ll show some more advanced patterns that go beyond copying files between a build and a runtime stage, allowing to get most out of the feature. If you are new to multistage builds you probably want to start by reading the usage guide first.
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How we test Docker Desktop with WSL 2
Recently we have released a new Edge version 2.2.3.0 of Docker Desktop for Windows. This can be considered as a release candidate for the next Stable version that will officially support WSL 2. With Windows 10 version 2004 in sight we are giving the next version of Docker Desktop the final touches to give you the best experience running Linux containers on Windows 10.
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