3 posts tagged with "tooling"

There are a few resemblance between a CI pipeline and a kitchen sink. When it has just been installed it does its job efficiently and after a while its functionality is taken for granted. But the same way that a sink becomes clogged over time, a pipeline tend to grow slow, complex and/or bloated. An just like with the sink, the change is incremental and slow that it's hard to notice the decay. And lastly, before this comparison is put aside: they are both integral components in crucial workflows.

Docker is the kind of technology that grows on you. A couple of months I barely knew the difference between a container and image, but lately I've been exploring the benefits of using docker to spin up my local development environment and it is impressive how easy it is to getting started.

In this post, I describe how I created this Github repo, that clusters three RabbitMQ servers without building any custom images for it.

TL;DR this is a Docker love story. Why spend hours setting up your development environment, when it can be done with a single command? Sort of, anyways.

A couple of months ago, I bought a new PC for .NET development on Windows. Little did I know that it was shipped with a damaged disk that decided to give up only weeks after I had set up my local development environment. By that time, I had installed Erlang, RabbitMQ, Elastic, Kibana, MongoDB, SQL Server and a few other applications I needed.