Description: A blog about technology, containers, life, the Internet, and everything.
A lot of words get written about how Docker revolutionizes delivery of the output of the software development process. Without a doubt, containers-as-super-packages are phenomenally useful for wrapping up binaries with configuration files, helper programs, shared libraries, and language runtimes. I’m not here to talk about that today.
No, I want to talk about how I use Docker while writing software–and how you can too!
Here’s a Dockerfile that makes my life easier when I’m working in Perl: