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I have a Dockerfile that I use to run my production. This is already built.

Is there anything I can use to build a local dev environment quickly using the Dockerfile. Obviously I can use docker, but quite often new developers have trouble with docker.

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Yeah, I've been trying to streamline this too. Have yet to find a good way to do local development inside docker. The best approach so far I've found is that I have my db, redis, and other services like that running in docker. My application is checked out locally and configured to hit the docker services.

Why not docker-compose[1]? One thing it does well is abstract docker commands to `docker-compose build && docker-compose up`.

[1]: https://www.docker.com/docker-compose

Docker Compose depends on a bundled copy of OpenSSL that has been insecure since June: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/1601

our production is built using docker-compose. But it is still not as easy for a developer to get started using docker-compose and be as effective as installing the code on his desktop.

I know I'm nitpicking here, but it would be great to have an abstraction on top of Dockerfiles that make it possible to develop in a near-production environment.

You can use Lattice for that: http://lattice.cf/docs/

thanks for that. lattice seems overly complicated for a developer machine usecase. I might as well do Docker.

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