docker-dev optimises Docker and Docker Compose for use on a developer's computer, making some common tasks easier than they would be otherwise.

Once you've cloned or downloaded this project, you can enable it by adding the following line to ~/.bashrc:

source /path-to-dockerdev/dockerdevrc

The following Bash scripts are included:

docker-dev wraps some Docker Compose subcommands in order to pass extra arguments. It's not opinionated about the structure of your Docker Compose file, and you can switch between docker-dev and docker-compose.

The docker-compose subcommands wrapped are:

• build, to avoid leaving intermediate containers and also pull the latest version of any parent Docker images. If an executable file called .dockerdev-prebuild exists in the current working directory, it'll be run before running docker-compose build (unless the executable fails).
• run, to prevent leaving containers behind once the command ends.
• up, to prevent leaving containers behind once the command ends and to exit once a container exists.
• down, to force Docker Compose to remove all the resources in the project.

For example,

docker-dev build webapp

docker-dev supports autocompletion in a Bash session.

This command will remove all your Docker resources (e.g., containers, volumes), except for images created in the past week.