A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
The past week I took a closer look at the several options on how to run a PHP app with Docker. In the past I’ve ran a few pre-built containers, but now I wanted to truly get to the bottom of it all as I don’t always need a full blown container with all extensions, …
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Jens Segers has created a handy shell script to easily start/stop Docker Compose based projects: Captain searches for docker-compose projects in your $HOME folder and allows you to start and stop those projects by passing a part of the parent directory name. Let this small recording of Captain in action convince you: Captain → Related: …
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UPDATE 2017.08.03: This should be fixed with the release of HAXM 6.1.1. Make sure you’re running the latest version of Android Studio On a recent project I was working on, I wasn’t able to start the Android Emulator/Simulator anymore from within Android Studio. Every time I launched it from Android Studio it would start, but …
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At work we’ve been using several separate docker images – such as instructure/fake-s3 and airdock/fake-sqs, orchestrated by docker-compose – to run a few of the Amazon Web Services locally. LocalStack provides the whole lot in one: LocalStack provides an easy-to-use test/mocking framework for developing Cloud applications. Currently, the focus is primarily on supporting the AWS …
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docker-time-sync-agentToday, at work, a colleague of mine ran into some time issues with his Docker containers: the time was clearly off. Turns out it’s a common problem: Docker’s daemon fails to update the VM’s time after computer wakes up from sleep. The result is that VM’s clock will be set to a past time. This …
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