Running webapp on Docker on MacOS can be quite slow, especially when you run multiple containers with file sync from host machine to containers. To help solve this problem when developing on MacOS, one of the solutions we can use is a tool called docker-sync.
This post will guide you step-by-step on how to setup on your local machine
WARNING: You should have experience with Docker and Docker Compose in advance so as to understand the post.
Pre-requisites
- Docker and Docker Compose must be installed
- A Docker image of your project
- Ruby is installed
Setup
Install docker-sync
gem install docker-sync --no-rdoc --no-ri
docker pull eugenmayer/unison:2.51.2.1
Create docker-sync.yml
Create docker-sync.yml
in the main directory of your project and include the following config in the file.
Create docker-compose-dev.yml
Create docker-compose-dev.yml
in the main directory
Imagine you have docker_compose.yml
like this and you want to sync file to webapp folder in rails_server with docker-sync
First of all, remove line no 5 and 6 (they are the cause of slow container). Then add the following config to the docker-compose-dev.yml
file
Start docker-sync
docker-sync start
If you want to stop then replace start
with stop
. To clean up log and reset docker-sync, use clean .
Start containers with Docker Compose
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose-dev.yml up -d
To check if everything is running properly, run docker ps
and check for the containers names with app-code-sync
and rails_server
. If they exist then hooray, your app is now up and running with docker-sync.
Note: you may want to set alias in .bashrc/.zshrc
the command above for faster typing.
Extra reading
- For source code, go to the GitHub repo
- For deeper understanding and configuration, remember to visit the wiki
- This post is originally from the same post on my Medium: dienbui.medium.com/speed-up-docker-for-mac-.. with little modification.
- Cover image is from perforce.com/sites/default/files/image/2018..