For about two years, I’ve wanted to use for local development. Hypothetically, it offers all the benefits of virtualized development environments like (stable, re-creatable, isolated, etc.) but requires fewer resources. Working at a consultancy, sometimes I need to switch back and forth between multiple projects in a day.

Spinning a full VM up and down can take a while. Alternatively, running two or more virtual machines at once can eat up all of my computer’s resources. While I’d been interested in Docker for a while, I hadn’t had the time and energy to really dive into it. Then I went to DockerCon this April, which finally gave me enough momentum to figure out how to integrate it into my development workflow.

Sharing is Caring (About File IO Speed) I suspected—correctly—that Docker would fall prey to some of the same shortcomings as Vagrant. Specifically, I am thinking of the speed of shared volumes. Generally speaking, sharing files between MacOS and a virtual OS on a hypervisor breaks down when too many reads or writes are required in a short amount of time. This may be due to running asset pipelines like those of or that generate tons of temporary files.

Most sharing systems (, NFS) do not support ignoring subdirectories. That wouldn’t be so bad, except that many framework tools do not let you configure the location of dependencies and temp directories. I’m looking at you, Ember. What’s a Developer to Do?

Install Docker for Mac Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Docker for Mac is the Community Edition (CE) of Docker for MacOS. To download Docker for Mac, head to Docker Store. Install and run Docker for Mac. Double-click Docker.dmg to open the installer, then drag Moby the whale to the Applications folder. Install Docker for Mac Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Docker for Mac is the Community Edition (CE) of Docker for MacOS. To download Docker for Mac, head to Docker Store. Install and run Docker for Mac. Double-click Docker.dmg to open the installer, then drag Moby the.

Going into firewall settings, it says 'You're not connected to a network right now', which of course is not correct (note that all other functions of Total Protection that use the network seem to work). I read Document ID TS102623. The document suggests that, if the firewall cannot be turned on, the user run the McAfee Virtual Technician. Disable firewall chrome for mac.

Hi Lucas, Thanks for the links. Those seem like good options for many use cases. If I recall correctly, nfs sharing had decent performance for the Rails pipeline but choked on Ember’s build pipeline. It’s possible the second option you presented would fix this, though, since the files “live” on the docker machine / VirtualBox VM. That said, one of my other goals was to (semi)-seamlessly transition back to standard Docker for Mac volumes, if and when they fix their speed issues. My assumption is that Docker will prioritize Docker For Mac as the preferred/default way to develop on a Mac, versus using a standalone VM as your docker machine. So I’m betting on Docker for Mac long-term.

Consequently, I like docker-sync in that getting back to “vanilla” Docker for Mac is as simple as tweaking the volumes in docker-compose.yml and dropping docker-sync.yml. And I do pretty much use docker-compose for everything, though I can see how docker-sync would be much less nice to use without it.

Install and Run SQL Server Docker Container on Mac Like most people, I use Mac, Windows as well Linux OS for development and testing purposes. Primarily I use Mac for Development purpose.

I have few projects which uses SQL Server as Data Storage Layer. Setting up Docker Container on Mac and Opening up the ports was pretty easy and doesn’t take more than 10 Minutes. Steps followed: • Install Docker • Pull SQL Server Docker Image • Run SQL Server Docker Image • Install mssql Client • Install Kitematic • Open the Ports to connect to SQL Server from the network • Setup port forwarding to enable access outside the network Install Docker: Get Docker dmg image and install. Just follow the prompts and its very straight forward. Once you have installed docker, you can verify the installation and version. Docker run - d -- name macsqlserver - e 'ACCEPT_EULA=Y' - e 'SA_PASSWORD=Passw1rd' - e 'MSSQL_PID=Developer' - p 1433: 1433 microsoft / mssql - server - linux: 2017 - latest -d: this launches the container in daemon mode, so it runs in the background –name name_your_container (macsqlserver): give your Docker container a friendly name, which is useful for stopping and starting containers from the Terminal. -e ‘ACCEPT_EULA=Y: this sets an environment variable in the container named ACCEPT_EULAto the value Y.