Polybox - Awesome docker based dev environments

Purpose

The aim of this project is to make it as easy to hack and explore other programming languages and environments without going trough the hastle of installing them.

With polybox you are able to quickly setup a rails, go or nodejs environment and start hacking.

Quickstart

Make sure you have vagrant installed:

git clone https://github.com/emilebosch/polybox.git && cd polybox

Start a rails polybox, for instance:

./pb rails4

Wait for the polybox to load and start writing your code under /src/ in your new polybox. This is shared with your host computer under src/rails so you can still edit with your favourite editor, such as sublime.

You can now create a new rails app (mysql is preinstalled):

rails new myapp -d mysql
cd myapp
rake db:create
rails s

Since port 3000 is default forwarded from vagrant with the host you should be able to just navigate to: http://localhost:3000

How polybox works

Polybox is a delicious vagrant, docker combination. It basically creates a vagrant virtual machine, installs docker and when you ask it to run a polybox it will just pull a new container for that environment.

When you pb the following happends:

• Creates a ./src/ folder
• Pulls the container
• Mounts the container and shares the source directory and runs the container

Keeping your code safe and awesome

Polybox uses a standard run docker, trowaway container. As long as your development code is stored in /src within the polybox, it will be remounted during new polybox sessions and your code is safe.

Currently available boxes

• Rails4
• Django
• Go
• Haskell
• Nodejs

Getting new boxes

Getting new boxes is just a matter of doing a git pull in the polybox cloned direcory. It will download any box updates.

How to donate a polybox

• Fork this project & branch
• Create a docker image (keep it small please) and push it to a public repo
• Add a polybox file in the ./boxes directory, see the current ./boxes/rails4 as an example.

Wishlist

• Scala