Docker has matured from a curiosity into the default way to get a consistent environment. A guide to Dockerising a Rails app for development and CI — docker-compose for the full stack, the layer-cache discipline, and where Docker helps versus where it adds friction.
A war story about packaging bitcoind in a container: the initial block download that humbles you, why the blockchain must live in a volume, locking down the RPC interface, and what a full node teaches you about long-running stateful services.
Docker is approaching 1.0 and it is about to change how we ship Ruby apps. A hands-on guide to images, containers, and Dockerfiles — building a reproducible dev environment and why 'works on my machine' is finally on its way out.