Engineering
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Jun 23, 2020
Containerize Your Go Developer Environment – Part 3
In this series of blog posts, we show how to put in place an optimized containerized Go development environment. In part 1, we explained how to start a containerized development environment for local Go development, building an example CLI tool for different platforms. Part 2 covered how to add Go dependencies, caching for faster builds and unit tests. This third and final part is going to show you how to add a code linter, a GitHub Action CI, and some extra build optimizations.
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Jun 17, 2020
Containerize Your Go Developer Environment – Part 2
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 This is the second part in a series of posts where we show how to use Docker to define your Go development environment in code. The goal of this is to make sure that you, your team, and the CI are all using the same environment. In part 1,…
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Jun 16, 2020
How to Develop Inside a Container Using Visual Studio Code Remote Containers
This is a guest post from Jochen Zehnder. Jochen is a Docker Community Leader and working as a Site Reliability Engineer for 56K.Cloud. He started his career as a Software Developer, where he learned the ins and outs of creating software. He is not only focused on development but also on the automation to bridge…
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Jun 11, 2020
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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Jun 4, 2020
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.
Jeremie DrouetRead now
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May 5, 2020
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.
Peter McKeeRead now
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May 4, 2020
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!
Simon FerquelRead now
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Apr 30, 2020
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.
Jeremie DrouetRead now