I have a development environment I'm dockerizing and I would like the ability to livereload my changes without having to rebuild docker images. I'm using docker compose because redis is one of my app's dependencies and I like being able to link a redis container
I have two containers defined in my docker-compose.yml
:
node:
build: ./node
links:
- redis
ports:
- "8080"
env_file:
- node-app.env
redis:
image: redis
ports:
- "6379"
I've gotten to the point in my node
app's dockerfile where I add a volume, but how do I mount the the host's directory in the volume so that all my live edits to the code are reflected in the container?
Here's my current Dockerfile:
# Set the base image to Ubuntu
FROM node:boron
# File Author / Maintainer
MAINTAINER Amin Shah Gilani <amin@gilani.me>
# Install nodemon
RUN npm install -g nodemon
# Add a /app volume
VOLUME ["/app"]
# TODO: link the current . to /app
# Define working directory
WORKDIR /app
# Run npm install
RUN npm install
# Expose port
EXPOSE 8080
# Run app using nodemon
CMD ["nodemon", "/app/app.js"]
My project looks like this:
/
- docker-compose.yml
- node-app.env
- node/
- app.js
- Dockerfile.js
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From the looks of it you could do the following on your docker-compose.yml
volumes:
- ./:/app
There's a few options
Short Syntax
Using the host : guest
format you can do any of the following:
volumes:
# Just specify a path and let the Engine create a volume
- /var/lib/mysql
# Specify an absolute path mapping
- /opt/data:/var/lib/mysql
# Path on the host, relative to the Compose file
- ./cache:/tmp/cache
# User-relative path
- ~/configs:/etc/configs/:ro
# Named volume
- datavolume:/var/lib/mysql
Long Syntax
As of docker-compose v3.2 you can use long syntax which allows the configuration of additional fields that can be expressed in the short form such as mount type
(volume, bind or tmpfs) and read_only
.
version: "3.2"
services:
web:
image: nginx:alpine
ports:
- "80:80"
volumes:
- type: volume
source: mydata
target: /data
volume:
nocopy: true
- type: bind
source: ./static
target: /opt/app/static
networks:
webnet:
volumes:
mydata:
Check out https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/#long-syntax-3 for more info.
It was two things:
I added the volume in docker-compose.yml
:
node:
volumes:
- ./node:/app
I moved the npm install && nodemon app.js
pieces into a CMD
because RUN
adds things to the Union File System, and my volume isn't part of UFS.
# Set the base image to Ubuntu
FROM node:boron
# File Author / Maintainer
MAINTAINER Amin Shah Gilani <amin@gilani.me>
# Install nodemon
RUN npm install -g nodemon
# Add a /app volume
VOLUME ["/app"]
# Define working directory
WORKDIR /app
# Expose port
EXPOSE 8080
# Run npm install
CMD npm install && nodemon app.js