Jonathan's Development Container
I work in a number of environments. Keeping a stable set of tools across these environments for a consistent build experience is challenging. I created this container to manage that and provide all the tools that I regularly use across systems, platforms, etc.
Running
From the git root:
docker run --rm --interactive --tty --entrypoint bash --hostname dev-container $(docker build -q .)
To mount a local directory the --volume command can be used as such:
--volume path/to/host/dir:path/to/container/dir. Typically something like
--volume ~:/home/jonathan/ makes sense.
Performance
When running the container on a Windows host, it is important to map scratch directories from inside a WSL instance to get direct access to a native(ish) Linux filesystem. Windows directories are NTFS format and have different update requirements, so failure to do this will cause IO issues severe enough to significantly slow compilation.