[javier10e6]

Containers add a substantial level of indirection for us, developers. Now we have to grow a seventh arm to juggle to manage/fold into our workflow. For production? Hands down the right solution. For development, I wish, only wish, We could live without.

[tracker1]

It's made the entire process MUCH easier for me... `docker-compose up -d deps` and I have all my background services running local... `... api` and the api is also running and I can concentrate on the UI.. `... ui` and it's all running. I can then run tests against the whole thing.

Also, setup all the containers to include unit test results in the runtime container... this gets extracted/merged in CI/CD. Beyond this, I can stand-up the entire application and run through full integration and UI test suites in the CI/CD pipeline. Same commands locally... it all is much smoother than prior experiences.

I will NEVER run a database install on my developer desktop again. Database deployes on the main application I work with, and unit tests all finish in about 5 seconds or less (not including initial download). I'm also able to run db admin apps right with the DB.

Persist volumes, run/test upgrades and from-scratch. It all goes really smoothly overall. Wouldn't ever want to go back to mile-long dependency instructions step by step to getting a development environment running ever again. WSL2 + Docker Desktop are pretty damned great.