Tidbits tagged with #containers (3)

All my projects use docker-compose. In my setup I want every nodejs packages that provides an executable, such as mocha or tsc to be available globally on the command line.
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After clarifying why I use Docker for every project I set up let me try to clarify also: Why would I use a docker-compose setup over a single Dockerfile setup? I had been doing the single Dockerfile setup for quite a while. I was doing a lot of manual work, that made the setup work. But I don't regret it, it taught me a lot! But that was not sustainable, and it didn't scale.
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I used to install everything on my machine. I used to have ruby, nodejs, python, java, rebol, red and all the programming languages and environments, their packagers and tools I needed installed on my machine. It was heaven. Except for the moment when I had to install a new tool, that needed a newer version, and the old ones might broke and then I had to choose or reinstall every time, switch to rvm, nvm, pyenv or something else. For a while vagrant was cool.
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