Smooth Experience for Developing and Deploying with Docker

When I begun to work with Docker I was thrilled about the possibility to launch an ElasticSearch server with a single command line. When I met docker-compose I was thrilled by the possibility to concatenate many different services into one single application.

My questioning soared when the time had come for me to deploy.

• how do I distribute my app for different environments?
• where do I store my images?
• are DockerCloud and DockerHub good for me?

Those were not so simple questions to answer and on top of it I had a couple of constrains from my boss:

• we can not ask our frontend developers to become bash experts
• we can not afford a virtual server for each app
• we are making Wordpress websites, we are no SpaceX!

For all we knew a shared virtual hosting based on a *AMP machine was all we needed to run our business, still I was thrilled by the idea to put some simple NodeJS services beside the main Wordpress so to run jobs more efficiently, and wrap it up with NGiNX.

I also pulled out my wish list:

• we should work with whatever language suits the job
• we should be able to run a GitHub based release (aiming for CI)
• we should be able to run our apps in different environments easily

We are still working on a solution, and we are bringing ideas and code together under this repository.
And that is how docker-humble was born!

• use docker-compose commands to run your app (./humble up)
• describe different environments with different docker-compose files
• use a .env file to tell which environment to run
• use our utils image to run boring tasks like:
  • seeding file volumes
  • seeding databases (mysql, postgres, mongo)
  • backup file volumes
  • backup databases

• use docker-compose commands to run many multi service apps (./humble-server up)
• use a YAML config file to distribute ports and set host names for each app
• automagically run an NGiNX reverse proxy
• achieve zero downtime when deploying new stuff (WiP)

We believe in time efficiency so whenever you need to start a new project, we aim to provide you with a ready to use template for it:

• multi service app
• multi app server

• How to use docker-humble in a Compose project
• File System
  • fs-seed
  • fs-dump
  • fs-import
  • fs-export
• MySQL
  • mysql-seed
  • mysql-dump
  • mysql-create-db
• Others
  • wp-migrate