With Docker deployment, smaller images are usually better.

But your docker images will keep changing. And you just don’t remember to check it for a while. Then someday you happen to find out some huge images in your deployment pipeline. Feel uncomfortable, don’t you? Any thoughts about how to improve it?

My answer is like always: Monitor That! And Get Slack notifications.

Enclosed is my approach. Check it out! And discuss with me, my friends.

Nowadays when people setup and configure services, probably nobody will enjoy doing it in a manual way.

Here comes a new question. How do you automate the process, and make it fast and reliable?

Wrap up some ssh scripts? Leverage CM(configuration management tools) like chef, ansible, or pupet? Use docker run? It’s great that we now have many options. But, as you may guess, not all of them are equally good.

You want a headache-free solution, right? And you also want it real quick, do you? Then You Can Not Miss docker-compose! Here are some useful tips and lessons learned using docker-compose.