Rails Study, Day 3: Docker
Published on 28 Mar 2017
by Alexander Garber
As I want my development environment to mirror Heroku's settings as closely as possible, I decided to see what the Heroku website itself has to say on the matter.
My inclination was to keep it simple by using Vagrant, but Heroku's Cedar stack is available as a Docker image, so I will go with Docker instead. I've been meaning to familiarise myself with Docker for a while, so this works for me.
Official Notes for Docker are available from Gist.
This videos helps to demystify Docker.
Steps followed:
- Install Docker on my host machine.
- Buy a Droplet
- Follow the Digital Ocean tutorial