Hi everyone, or one, however many, hope all is well. These last few weeks have been hard for all of us, and it is tuff to keep a captain’s log when the sea is turbulent and requires careful navigation. This is the reason I decided to try something new, something I suppose I should have been doing all along. Instead of studying the subject and writing the experience, I will try to combine writing, while, getting acquainted with the subject. Disclaimer, this is a test, it is a discussion from following the tutorial not instructions. Feel free to follow the tutorial –the link is at the end.
The beginning of this tutorial has us creating a folder in cmd and opening that folder, I tried to follow it to the letter. Windows users tend to get lazy with all the easy click visual aids and underestimate the power of the shell (pun intended). While playing through a python file, I decided to write the script on the shell and forgot to use “”. Many lines later I realize the time I wasted with the useless typing effort. Echo “import time” > app.py was all that I needed, sometimes we go through the extra effort without realizing there is no extra reward. The focus of this tutorial is not the python script [ctrl c, ctrl v is my best friend/enemy].
The second part of the tutorial has us setting up a Dockerfile. I wasted some time trying to find the [.extension] for Dockerfile, which shows how sometimes is easy to go around chasing our tails in tutorials. The tutorial has a very good set of explanations on what every line is doing. I really like the RUN pip install -r requirements.txt, which saves space and compartmentalize things, all we must do is write the txt for the requirements in that one file and we never have to touch the Dockerfile for petty things such as these.
Step 3 has us creating a [.yml] file for the compose json like statements. As mentioned in the tutorial this compose file defines a [web] and [redis] services, I assume the version is not linked to anything or it is set at the developer’s discretion giving the condition of some actual project. The [web] service just points to the port that have been exposed from the Dockerfile, I suppose. The other service [redis] is an image to run parallel to the image already running from Dockerfile.
The final step was to just run [docker-compose up] and I must say there is nothing more pleasing than blue text and no errors at the end. It then asks you to use the keyword [volumes] in the [.yml] file to bind the current directory on the host to /code, I must say I got an error for missing a space on [-.:/code] instead of [- .:/code], see the difference. We’ve done this in class, but any good guitar player could tell you –repetition is the name of the game.
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