Vapor Docker Compose

Rationale

Using Docker and Ngrok we can develop client applications for our Vapor APIs easily without having to standup a developmental instance on a 3rd party service such as heroku or vapor cloud.

Requirements

• Vapor Toolbox
• Docker version 18+

Usage - with sample project

1. vapor update # install the packages
2. docker-compose build # build the docker containers
3. docker-compose up # starts the containers
4. navigate to localhost:4040 # expose ngrok urls
5. click on ngrok link to have access to your vapor application

Usage - with your project

TODO!

TODOS

• script to install starter dockers scripts "Dockerfile" and "docker-compose.yml" into another vapor project to use as a template

Notes

Docker will create a temp file for persistent data like the postgresql volume