The title of this post is one of my favourite quotes from one of my favourite episodes of my favourite shows. See the foot of this post for more info.
I was reminded of this quote whilst tackling chapter five of The Docker Book. I cannot recall finishing this section last time around as I was running Docker on my Mac, not an EC2 instance running Ubuntu as I am now. I ran into limitations on the Mac Docker implementation.
When I had completed the section I had (deep breath), Jenkins running in a Docker container on an EC2 instance, creating Docker containers to run Ruby apps. I connected to the EC2 instance from iTerm running on my Mac.
I am particularly proud of completing this one as I ran into a number of issues through which I logically debugged to fix. I learnt a lot as I did so but even better I was using tools, techniques, knowledge and logic that would have been beyond me first time around.
What I am not particularly proud of is that I managed to lose a Dockerfile that had an issue so could not compare it to the Dockerfile that ultimately worked – opportunity lost there to learn something else. However, I know the area where the issue occurred so all is not lost.
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