This is a script to run our development environment for nginx, mongo etc on docker.

Caveats:

• I use Mac OS 10.11.6 - your mileage may vary.
• Docker for Mac is currently in public beta with version 1.12.0-rc4-beta20 (build 10404) and updated almost weekly. Whatever is in this repo may become outdated soon
• with the introduction of its new abstraction to the HyperKit VM managed by the MacOS docker command, this whole script boils down to mapping the start and stop operations to a single line each of docker-compose commands. It is absolutely questionable whether the whole thing is still needed. Previously there had to be a variety of commands to be issued and this script saved a lot of time, but not any more.

This project consists of a few parts, each of them is very small

• a file docker-compose.yml which defines the different docker containers required for our development. A typical stack for some of my projects has a MongoDB, a RabbitMQ, a node.js and a nginx container.
• some of the containers may have files here for mounting into the container, e.g. the nginx container has a folder with configuration files and security certificates which are required inside the container
• a folder for the node container to put your project files (optional)
• a .gitignore file to make sure that some files are excluded from source control, e.g. we always want to avoid to have the security certificates of Nginx in our git repo, but we also want to exclude the debug log of the node container.
• a startup script devenv.sh which helps in issuing various commands to start and stop the group of containers. With the progress of the docker engine (notable version 1.12) this is almost no longer necessary.

• get Docker for Mac
• get this repo with

git clone https://github.com/abarbanell/devenv.git

• the first time you need to create SSL certificates for the nginx container.

$ cd devenv
$ openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout nginx.conf/cert.key -out nginx.conf/cert.crt

Since the docker command runs its own HyperKit virtual machine there is actually no VM to start or stop here, you just need to make sure that the docker engine is running on your Mac.

Then the containers listed in the file docker-compose.yml will be started and stopped with

$ ./devenv.sh start
$ ./devenv.sh stop

# alternatively you could just use instead: 
$ docker-compose up -d
$ docker-compose stop

You see, the devenv.sh script is nothing much. I will leave it hanging around for a while and see whather there is a need for this wrapper in the future for some reason.