You’re a web developper and among your daily tasks are installing/updating/running the same scripts, binaries again again and again.
Pre-docker era.
As a Backend PHP developper, we all have php-cli installed using Homebrew. Several tools rely on the PHP runtime, such as Composer, PhpUnit, Phing and more. …
In the good old days deploying your app/website to production was as easy as droping some files through your favorite FTP client. Whereas todays app are more complex and more technologies/people are involved in the process . Several building process are required before even thinking of pushing you app to…
When running docker images you’ll see the following, images weighting several hundred of MBs. Even simple container, providing one singe service are heavy. Why ? Because base images used, such as Ubuntu, Centos and Debian images are themselves very heavy.
Images based on busybox could have been an alternative, but…
