Probably I should start why not Google Chrome, for what its worth Chrome is de facto standard in web right now. Well it is mostly for the reasons of privacy. The amount of data collection Google applies to its users it staggering. It already owns all my e-mail, at some…

New Jersey is a pretty mind-blowing state to live in. A lot of people choose it because it gives access to the job market of New York City and Philadelphia, but you don’t have to live in the city. I know that many people love living in the city (at…

Since the switch to official PHP images — which is better in the long run — installing PHP extensions became rather cumbersome. This is because, in most cases, you actually have to compile the extension from sources, first figuring out the dependencies and then using special utilities to do that…

We all love command line tools in DevOps, they help with keeping things under precise control, like a shift stick in a car. But what if you don’t need that level of control, or just want to relax, push the pedal and accelerate? Once the upcoming Docksal 1.12 release (packed…

If you were waiting for this, behold! The feature is around the corner in the final stages of testing and is waiting to be released in Docksal 1.12. But let’s take a step back and start from the beginning. Once upon a time… an integration with command lines tools was released. It brought happiness…

By default Docksal creates its own loopback IP address 192.168.64.100 for your localhost adapter, and listens on ports 80 and 443 of that IP. This is great, because it is not exclusive, you can have another web server running in parallel. For instance if you want to have your own…

We have all been there. You need to share some web project work. You cannot use screen sharing for one or another reason, and it is hard to deploy the code somewhere, whether because it takes time to deploy, or DEV server is busy. You name it. The best case would be if you could just share your local with someone else. Well, with Docksal you can. fin share A single command will start an Ngrok sharing server, that will share your local Docksal project via the globally accessible URL, which you can ask your client to open and check, if everything looks alright, or show it to your buddy and ask for help with something.

I have one really heavyweight Drupal project. With the regular setup of Docksal plus NFS-mapped volumes the homepage load time is almost 2 minutes! This is unacceptable of course. So I changed volumes to Unison, and it slashed the load time dramatically, to 19 seconds. 19 seconds is still slow…

For some reason you may be not happy with the Ruby version installed in the docksal/cli by default. Installing RVM and then getting fin exec ruby to execute the needed Ruby version might seem like a challenging task, but it is actually relatively easy. Here is how you can do…