NB: These notes are for MacOS - Win10/11 is probably easy, under WSL2 using docker-ce.
- Install homebrew if not already installed
- Reboot machine to be clean
brew install docker docker-compose colimacolima start --cpu 4 --memory 8 --disk 150 -t vz
You can also run the below commands in a Gitpod instance without needing any configuration files.
We can use docker compose to get the application up and running in a local environment - just perform docker compose up -d
This will build the image, copy the application in and run perl app.pl to start the application
You can visit it from your desktop by browsing to: http://127.0.0.1:3000/
Use docker compose down to send a halt to docker compose and it will bring down the container gracefully.
Update your code and rebuild your container with docker compose up -d as shown above