Docker for Development and Testing
Docker is a virtualisation tool. It can create lightweight, fast, isolated, and reproducible environments like virtual machines, in which an application can be tested reliably. An docker image is a snapshot of an operating system. A container is an instance of an image, behaving like a running virtual machine. Testing Process Say I want to test a rust project with file structure like . ├── Cargo.lock ├── Cargo.toml ├── src │ └── main.rs └── target ├── CACHEDIR.TAG └── debug In a brand new operating system, everything needed to test this project is the rust-cargo suite, besides the source code. So I want the container to have them. ...