Improving your development environment with the help of Docker, Nginx and other tools

A bit of backstory I’ve been pretty invested in the Docker ecosystem for quite a while now, evangelizing about the greatest of its advantages, dealing with the quirks in production, and closely following every release and discussion. One of the main benefits Docker has brought to my workflow is that I seldom install software directly in my computer anymore. Not only that, uninstallation and cleanup have become something that’s a breeze, allowing my host OS (OS X if you’re interested) by extension to function even better, be less polluted, and use less storage.

At this point, if you look closely, it should come as no surprise that my blog is now powered by Ghost, it’s also deployed inside a Docker container in a DigitalOcean droplet. I’ve been thinking about my setup and how easy it was to get it running, I figured I might want to write about it. There are plenty of tutorials out there on how to deploy this blogging platform, but my configuration and hence this article it’s a little more advanced, since it attempts to cover areas many of those don’t.