lynncyrin/base-image

A personalized and well documented docker dev time base image.

Usage

docker pull lynncyrin/base-image
docker run -it lynncyrin/base-image

If you're looking at this repo and thinking "I want this, but slightly different", I encourage you to copy paste this repo and create your own! Personalize your base image like you'd personalize your laptop, or your living room ✨ Make all the changes you want ✨

Status

High level components added:

• python
• golang
• nodejs
• rustlang
• ruby

Motivation and Context

I do my dev work on both osx and windows, so its nice to have a linux container to work in. Every so often an install will break on a dev machine (my osx rust install is currently broken) - and doing dev work in a container completely solves that problem.

At this point in my career, I'm consistently writing in a variety of different languages. To ease the effort it takes to context switch (and also mirror local dev) its nice to have a docker container that contains all my languages.

I'm an infrastructure engineer, so exactly how each language is built is very interesting to me! So I'm building each language from source, rather than copying for pre-built sources. This also makes it slightly easier for me to do dev work on the language itself (I'm currently planning on doing this for python)

It you're thinking of doing something similar for personal use, but don't want to deal with so much docker / ubuntu / bash, then docker run -it python bash (or whatever language) works perfectly fine! I don't reccommend going through the effort of curating a base / dev image unless you really want to.