I read yesterday a discussion on phpc.social a Mastodon instance for the PHP community about docker images and how to make them work for you. Btw, all the following hard work is done by my great colleague Thomas Spigel. In our case, we want to use it for deployments, testing (especially cypress) and our newest […]

As I told you two days ago, I’m working on this Jekyll page. To generate the thumbnails I needed Imagemagick, but because jekyll doesn’t work on my local mac anymore (don’t ask why – I have no clue) I just found a docker images with does great work – thanks Bret Fisher! But unfortunaley or […]

Once upon a time I sat together with Thomas Lohner from ScaleCommerce and built a demo setup for Lizards and Pumpkins. It was great but most of the work he did, because he was (and most likely is still the docker master of the two of us). It was a great setup: We (and this […]

Introduction With Docker and DDEV-Local installed within our Linux distribution (Ubuntu), we are now going to create our first „DDEV container“ (which is actually a docker container created via DDEV, but for now, you really mustn’t be too worried about that). One important aspect to note here is that all the files we’re going to […]

Introduction All right, so you’re a developer working on a Windows machine, and as such, you’ve probably come across the topic of setting up a local dev environment before. Maybe you just needed a local Apache server and went for a standard XAMPP-setup. Or maybe – due to the ever-increasing complexity of your projects – […]