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amelius
I don't using Docker or any of these tools, but I get the feeling this could have been done easily using rsync instead.
allcentury
So the TL;DR is run your day to day on a VM that has a good internet connection if you use docker. Ok.
navls
Really just run your day to day on a VM regardless. It's 2015.
danudey
I run my day to day on a Macbook. I don't feel like wasting my limited resources for such minimal benefit.

If my gaming PC supported PCI passthrough I would though.

voltagex_
I'm on an X1 Carbon with 4GB of RAM, so I use Amazon spot instances instead.
vellum
You can do the same thing with a Digital Ocean droplet. Just make sure you add a swap file to increase the RAM to >=1 GB.
justinsaccount
Right.. and doing so is just a matter of using --driver digitalocean instead of --driver google
logingone
Micro-studio? In London that's a studio. New York micros are London standards.
logingone
Disagree? Please point me to usage of the term micro-studio in London.
logingone
-3 but the comment isn't faded? How does that work? And while I'm here, what is the downing for? An observation on the different terms used in New York and London - too off topic? Seems a bit excitable.
badmadrad
I would prefer to use LXD for this stuff. I can work in a container that is pretty much a vm. Snapshot and publish that vm to LXC registry and pull it down to another machine with faster internets. And all I need to do install apt-get install lxd. No crazy plugins and long command line stuff.
voltagex_
When Docker was new I could download the Ubuntu baseimage with no issues. Now there's so many layers it takes far too long.
jlhawn
Which Ubuntu image are you using? The official Ubuntu 14.04 image has always been only 4 layers and is about 190MB total size.
tracker1
Really cool post... though it seems like DigitalOcean, Linode or others might be a better idea if you use the instances more than a few hours a month.

I'm not connection constrained, but my workflow for linux is to mount a drive/directory to a linux instance (virtual or physical) edit with a gui editor locally, and run via an ssh connected cli. Which works pretty well for me.

Anyone familiar with something that can mount a virtual drive in windows or osx to a linux machine over ssh?

jayfk
Don't know about windows, but you can use NFS on OS X and Linux.

If you mount your working directory exactly like on your host machine, you can even use relative paths in your Dockerfile.

E.g mount /Users/tracker1 from your host on /Users/tracker1 on the VM.

Since your Dockerfile working dir matches on both systems, you can use them as if you were working directly on the machine, like:

ADD ./entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh COPY ./app/code /code

etc.