Key Benefits of Docker for Mac and Docker for Windowsĭocker for Mac and Docker for Windows provide several key benefits especially to developers using Docker in their workflow: With Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows it’s even easier and also more efficient to run on your dev box. That’s fairly easy to do actually but does require more upfront work (albeit minimal). If you’re new to Docker, getting started with it has always been pretty straightforward using Docker Toolbox, but with Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows getting started with Docker is even easier now! With Docker Toolbox you have to use Docker Machine to get VirtualBox up and running and “linked” into a command window on Mac or Windows. That makes it easy to test out various WordPress changes (plugin and theme updates for example) rather than trying them on my production server which can be scary! If you’re working in an enterprise environment this capability is especially useful with Line of Business apps that may require a lot of moving parts such as a reverse proxy, one of more running web servers, databases, caching servers, etc. What’s great about Docker is that I can have a local version of my blog up and running on my dev machine in a matter of minutes and it mirrors production. Three containers are used and managed with Docker Cloud: In fact the site is running in Docker containers on Azure. I’m a huge fan of Docker and am using it a lot in various projects now.
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