[kstenerud]

Docker is awesome for making virtual desktop systems. My dev environment + all required IDEs and apps is a docker image running xrdp, x2go, and google remote desktop, and my home directory is mounted as a volume. Works great!

Now when I need to move my dev environment to another computer (travel), I just copy the home dir, docker build, and I have the exact same environment ready to go.

My dev environment is 100% deterministic, backed up to git, and serves as documentation for what I need installed to do my work. If I find I need something else added, I modify the Dockerfile, commit, rebuild and redeploy. If something messes up my environment, destroy and rebuild is only a couple of commands away.

For anyone interested: https://github.com/kstenerud/docker-desktops

[cookiecaper]

For the record, LXC containers are much more cooperative as non-emulated VMs than Docker containers. I'm sure this is also the case with Virtuozzo, etc. (though I haven't tried them). These other container systems function nearly identically to an emulated VM, which is what most people actually want out of containers -- thin VMs.

[bchallenor]

I didn't know about the --init flag to docker run, thanks! Looks like that was added last year with 1.13.0. Going to have to try this myself, now.

[Serow225]

Thanks for posting that!