Docker

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.pierre-couy.fr/post/350920

I am trying to come-up with a reusable template to quickly start new projects using my prefered tools and frameworks, and I'm happy with what I got. However, using Docker is quite new for me and I've probably done some weird or unconventional stuff in my docker-compose.yml or my Dockerfiles. I'd love to learn from people with more experience with Docker, so feel free to tell me everything that is wrong with my setup.

I'm more confident about the stuff I did with Python/Django and Nuxt, but all criticism is welcome. This also applies to the readme : I'd like to provide detailed instructions about working with this project template, so please report anything that is unclear or missing.

Thank you to anyone who takes the time to check it out and help me make this useful to as many people as possible.

Is it possible to create a volume that is a file, not a directory?

I am trying to make a simple structured nginx instance with docker. Using this command below to create the container...

docker container create -v ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx.conf -v .:/app/ -p 80:80 docker.io/nginx

And this is the file structure of it...

- www
-------------- public
---------------------------- index.html
- nginx.conf

And this is the nginx.conf

server {
    server_name localhost;
    listen 80;
    
    root /app/www/public;

    index index.html index.htm;
    autoindex on;
}

However the index.html will not work when I go to the localhost.

When I change the docker command to this it does work however, but this will also mirror all of the files and folder from my file structure into the containers /etc/nginx/conf.d/ directory

docker container create -v .:/etc/nginx/conf.d/ -v .:/app/ -p 80:80 docker.io/nginx

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/10005452

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/10005448

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