batect: auto downloads itself on first activation. Listing possible tasks to be run. How long does it take you to onboard a new colleague? It takes roughly two weeks to get someone outfitted with all dev, build and test environments. The concept of Build and Test Environments as Code tries to take that trouble away. And the tool batect makes that possible within Docker. In the words of the “go script concept”: “You know you’re on a mature dev team when your instructions as a new team member are: check out the repo, run ./batect — list-tasks, ./batect setup, and you’re done. I’ll show you how […]

ugly sketch: by me Working with docker-compose? And as soon as it involves more than one repository or more than one “service” things get messy. Cage brings some order to that chaos and is a tremendous help in such setups. To understand Cage you should understand the workflow it is made for, and what the faraday.io people believe is the right workflow to have: One repository for the infrastructure of a multi-service stack. For instance ten docker-compose.yml’s for services that are deployed together. You should then be able to download with one command cage pull all ten CI server-built docker images […]