> Try running a few docker containers to support development work.
Docker containers should not take more memory than the same app running without docker + a few megs for duplicated libraries. What matters is what's running in the containers.
Docker containers should not take more memory than the same app running without docker + a few megs for duplicated libraries. What matters is what's running in the containers.
I'm currently working on a project which involves a Docker replication of a production environment. The Docker Compose environment has 7 docker containers including Cassandra, Kafka and Flink plus some nodejs micro-services. This all runs happily in a 6Gb docker container leaving memory free for Eclipse, Atom, Outlook and a bunch of other applications on a 16Gb 2015 MacBook Pro. At no point have I felt that the machine is performing poorly due to memory exhaustion.