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Boot up Linux development env using Vagrant
\n| \n | Docker Desktop | \nLinuxdev with Vagrant | \n
|---|---|---|
| Docker hub account | \nsignin is required if you want to stop checking updates | \n✅login to Docker hub is not necessary | \n
| Control over the Docker Engine Version | \nShould use latest above v3, unless the user ignore the updates | \n✅have the controll for docker-ce (community edition) | \n
| Licensing | \nfree for small business and personal, but auto-checking-update | \n✅free of charge (w/o VB extension pack) | \n
| Network setup | \nHost network\t | \n✅Can Choose . Bridge(host) . NAT + Host-only | \n
| Performance | \n. Hyper-v VM; might be slightly better but it likely consumes more memory | \n. Virtualbox VM; not so bad . Has alternatives (Hyper-v/VMWare/Virtualbox) | \n
| Environment | \nSlightly different environment between . Windows WSL2 (Custom distro integration required for Docker host access) . Windows VM (w/o Docker host acess) . Mac VM (w/o Docker host acess) | \n✅Common Linux environment available in Mac/Windows . Full Linux VM will be provided as a Docker host (Files can be shared natively in Linux host) . Docker engine can be also accessed from the host OS (docker and docker-compose client installation required) | \n
| Installation | \nInstaller provided | \nInstall scripts provided | \n
| Starting Docker | \nAutostart configurable | \nStartup script is provided both for Windows and Mac | \n
| Clients | \nProvided along with the Docker Desktop installer | \nInstall scripts provided | \n
| Config | \n✅Configurable in GUI | \nConfigurable in script | \n
| Docker storage | \nConfigurable size | \n✅Configurable 2k block size with a lot of inodes | \n
| Logs/status | \n✅GUI provided | \nOnly available in CLI | \n
| Limiting memory usuage | \n.wslconfig file for WSL2/GUI for VM | \n.env file/VirtualBox GUI | \n
Some recent windows update enables VBS and it will turn on hyper-v\nand that would make Vrtualbox slow and unstable.
\nIf systeminfo command shows following at the bottom, it’s good to use Virtualbox.
Hyper-V Requirements: VM Monitor Mode Extensions: Yes\n Virtualization Enabled In Firmware: Yes\n Second Level Address Translation: Yes\n Data Execution Prevention Available: YesPease follow he issue for further guidance.
\nDocker is necessary for developing nowadays. But if you are not using Linux as the OS, it requires VM for Docker engine.
\nI was using Linux in Virtualbox for many years and found that was quite nice and had no problem for using docker in it. And personally satisfied with the performance of docker in VM\nIn the other hand, Docker Desktop, I found couple of issue with using Docker Desktop in Windows recently.
\nSo it’s generally recommended to use WSL2 Ubunu but I would rather use VM
\nNot only for the Windows users, there would be some advantage for Mac users as well
\nAnd if you are familiar with the Linux command line, using Linux makes more senses than using Docker Desktop.
\nFor comparison, I tried one of my project which builds multiple docker images with node.js and filling up 20GB of docker storage.
\nBuilding includes installing node packages and webpack.\nDocker build kit was used for cache mounting.
\n| Env | \nBuild Time | \nNote | \n
|---|---|---|
| Linuxdev (Windows host) 6GB, i7 4 cores | \n24m 12s | \n\n |
| WSL2 (Docker Descktop) 16GB, i7 6 cores (no .wslconfig) | \n19m 18s | \nspent up to 13GB | \n
| WSL2 (Docker Descktop) 8GB, i7 6 cores (with .wslconfig) | \n18m 22s | \n\n |
| Linuxdev (Windows host) 8GB , i7 6 cores | \n✅ 14m 39s | \n\n |
| Mac OSX (Docker Descktop) 8GB, i7 6 cores | \n19m 37s | \nFirst build failed after 1 hour | \n
| Linuxdev (Windows host) 8GB , i7 4 cores | \n21m 13s | \n\n |
This was just an instance of the build. Just to let you know.\nAs you noticed, Linuxdev was the best in some situation.
\nThe script will disable Hyper-v (WSL2) and replace with VM and you can also use Docker from the host OS
\nSet-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass: enables ps1 for this powersell processsetup.ps1bootstrap.shsetup.shbootstrap.sh__VM__COMPOSE_VERSION)ProjectsIt’s okay to repeat this bootstrap script if something went wrong.
\nCopy and paste ssh public key to use in Github and where ever it’s required.
\nNow you can ssh into Linux dev env
\nssh linuxdevand you can also run any linux commands from the host terminal
\nssh linuxdev -t echo hello from VMFor Windows Terminal, there is also a profile generated for the machine.
\nAn additional external configuration dotfiles project like this can be added
\nIf DOTFILES_REPO has been defined in .env, it clones the repo to ~/dotfiles and try to run
any of files which is executable.
\nsetup.ps1 (Windows Powershell script; Use setup.sh for Mac)
bootstrap.sh (Mac; You can also use it in Git bash in Windows Terminal)
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This vm provides docker connection in 2376 port.\nIf you have docker client and set the env vars you can use docker from the host like Docker Desktop.
You can also install docker and docker-compose by running install-docker-clients script.
\n.bashrc or .zshrc has DOCKER_HOST and required variables for Mac/Git-bash and docker_env.bat will set variables in the command terminal in Windows.
Bootstrap installes the required variables automaticaly so you can use docker straightaway.
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