> **Update**: there's now a [companion repo](https://gitlab.com/danielquinn/developing-with-docker-demo) to serve as a demonstration of the below. You'd think that this topic would have been done to …

I’ve been writing code professionally for 24 years, 15 of which has been Python and 9 years of that with Docker. I got tired of running into the same complications every time I started a new job, so I wrote this. Maybe you’ll find it useful, or it could even start a conversation, but this post has been a long time coming.

Update: I had a few requests for a demo repo as a companion to this post, so I wrote one today. It includes a very small Django demo user Docker, Compose, and GitLab CI.

  • sip@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    are you me? I also have a test-app that runs the test suite.

    instead of that partial thing at the top I extend a base one into web, worker, test and build (simulate CI step).