Summary#

I revamped this post a little bit. Revisited the development container for my n3s0.tech journal site. I can say now that I enjoy it a little more.

Soon I’ll be building my own images for development and production. Along with docker compose files and maybe even some supporting helm charts to go along with them. But, until that happens I will use a container image that’s more mature to save some time. What I have now will indeed work and works well.

Docker Compose Setup#

Below is the docker-compose.yml file used for deploying the dev container. Name of the file is docker-compose-dev.yml in the repository. This will build a service named server that utilizes the hugomods/hugo:exts-non-root image. BaseURL needs to be set explicitly for all of the theme bits.

services:
  hugo_n3s0:
    image: hugomods/hugo:exts-non-root
    container_name: hugo-n3s0
    environment:
      - HUGO_ENV=development
    restart: always
    working_dir: /src
    volumes:
      - ./:/src
    ports:
      - "1313:1313"
    command: server --bind 0.0.0.0 --port 1313 --appendPort=false --baseURL http://localhost:1313

It’s very simple. Just the way I like it. Though, I have yet to test it on a fresh environment. Something that I would also like to note. To those who have never used docker-compose or podman-compose. They both need to see the compose file.

Deploy The Container#

After cloning the project there are a few commands that need to be executed before seeing the site locally. This command will bring up the container. To just deploy it without needing to interact with the container. Add the -d flag to detach from the stdout of the container.

I have included both podman and docker commands to accomplish this.

Podman Compose# 

podman-compose up

Docker Compose# 

docker compose up

Spinning Everything Down#

To shut everything down. Use the following command(s). This will remove the container and the networks associated with it.

Included are both podman-compose and docker compose commands that can be used for this.

Podman Compose# 

podman-compose down

Docker Compose# 

docker compose down

Conclusion#

With that. I think that covers the fun for this today. If I miss anything I’ll put an update on this. But, I think the next steps for this are to actually hone a production build so I can comfortably deploy this anywhere.