Docker

So let’s talk a little bit about development environments, shall we?

We developers are always trying to find the best solution when it comes to creating the best development environment, but that’s not always easy. Things are changing very fast nowadays and if you work on more than one project, things can get a little confusing.

About three years ago I thought I had the best solution for this problem using VirtualBox and Vagrant. I could start up a linux box in minutes and changes made in a project’s box would not affect other project’s environment. That was a nearly perfect solution when it worked. Most of the times things got out of hand when the projects got to big and complex and sometimes it was nearly impossible to recreate exacly the production environment using only one VM, and that’s when this solution failed.