building

• use Docker build instead of docker-compose build (or up –build) to take advantage of layer cashing (not so sure)

Restart

• How to do a clean restart of a docker instance

Debug

• see this article

• docker exec “”

• docker exec -it bash

• docker logs

• docker ps -a : list all containers

• docker rm (-f) : remove a container

• docker inspect

• docker network ls

Connecting to the database

• Use the container name and not localhost in the container

Editing docker files / library files

Usually no editor is present in the container

• See this

• Install vim

  • Connect as root : docker exec -u 0 -it mycontainer bash

• install vim

• Use docker cp