docker mount volume filewatcher detect changes

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I'll update this if I find better options. I've decided to add my own answer with the best solution I've found so far.

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I've captured the details on how to set this up in my own answer as well as an open-source project called docker-osx-dev. I have finally found a solution that seems productive using Boot2Docker + rsync. Has anyone found a solution that actually works and allows you to productively develop code with Docker and OS X? Update: a solution at last! That's better, but still not quite usable. Instead of Jekyll compilation being 10-15x slower, it was 2-3x slower. I tried Dinghy, a 'faster, friendlier Docker on OS X with Vagrant' and got some improvement.I enabled polling in Jekyll, but that significantly increased the delay until my changes were picked up.I tried to use the Unison file system, which worked briefly to sync files, but then kept showing connection errors.I tried a Samba mount, but the folder always showed up empty in the Docker container.I tried Vagrant + NFS, and that was also just as slow.I switched Boot2Docker to use NFS, but it was just as slow.I searched for solutions (including all the ones on SO) and tried out a few of them, but have not found a successful one: The default watch mechanisms in SBT, Jekyll, and grunt use technologies such as inotify, which do not work if they are running in a Docker container and the changes are made in OS X to a mounted folder. Here is the exact same Docker image, except this time, I mount the source code from OS X: > docker run -it -v $(pwd):/src brikis98/yevgeniy-brikman-homepage:v1 time bundle exec jekyll build Unfortunately, this has two major issues that make it completely unusable on OS X: Issue #1: Mounted volumes on VirtualBox (which use vboxsf) are extremely slowįor example, here is how long it takes Jekyll to compile my homepage if the source code is part of the Docker image: > docker run -it brikis98/yevgeniy-brikman-homepage:v1 time bundle exec jekyll build In theory, this should be easy to do by mounting my source code as a volume: docker run -it -v /path/to/my/source/code:/src some-docker-image Those modifications are reflected in the Docker container so if I re-run tests or refresh a webpage, I can see my changes immediately.I can modify the code on OS X using the tools (text editor, IDE, git, etc) I already have installed.The problem I'm hitting is how to manage the source code so that: I can't figure out a good way to set up a development environment on OS X using Docker and Boot2Docker.

Docker mount volume filewatcher detect changes