I set this up for my last company where we had all sorts of “works on my machine issues” and a needlessly painful onboarding experience. Local development became streamlined with this tooling BUT pre-apple silicon macs couldn’t handle running Docker like this. Glacially slow. We had a python monorepo with a bunch of services within it.
I am curious whether nix is an alternative / improvement for this. Was going down the nix road at first but an infrastructure team member steered me toward devcontainers instead and I’ve been pretty happy since!
Which has pretty nice support across IDEs. For example - https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers
I set this up for my last company where we had all sorts of “works on my machine issues” and a needlessly painful onboarding experience. Local development became streamlined with this tooling BUT pre-apple silicon macs couldn’t handle running Docker like this. Glacially slow. We had a python monorepo with a bunch of services within it.
I am curious whether nix is an alternative / improvement for this. Was going down the nix road at first but an infrastructure team member steered me toward devcontainers instead and I’ve been pretty happy since!