Createk.io

At Createk, we find Docker provides us with greater autonomy. Instead of needing a plethora of specific packages or software installations on our machines, we simply install it and can effortlessly run any of the applications we're currently working on. There's no need to adapt code, change settings, or install software in line with new projects. S... ome of our developers don't even need to have a specific language or framework version installed locally on their machine. This is great for scenarios like onboarding a new member of the development team or if one of our developers needs to use a different machine to normal. Docker makes our jobs easier and operations more efficient as it allows us to spend less time debugging environment-specific issues or setting up new environments altogether. We also use it for our application testing. We tend to use CircleCI for continuous integration and Docker fits into this nicely, meaning our test suite can use our application's image to run its tests against. Finally, it is great for running and developing our sites under custom URL endpoints. We can tell the system to run our application on the URL 'my-awesome-new-web-app.localhost' and this will become available for us to access. If we have an SSL certificate set up for this domain, we can also tell Docker to serve our application via HTTPS.Read More