When using Docker, Docker Compose, etc. I’ve found that trying to populate a database by mounting a volume containing the necessary .sql files doesn’t always work. If you’re using PostgreSQL and developing locally, here is a quick command to seed (re-seed) your database. In your …

We'll take a look at using multiple Docker Compose files for extending the functionality of Docker and Docker Compose for development.

Option 1) docker build -t myapp . && docker run -it myapp Option 2) Preferred docker run -it $(docker build -q .) By using the -q flag Docker will build the image according to our Dockerfile in quiet mode, and only return the hash of the generated Docker image. The hash value is then passed …