Hang on to the fin of the Whale (Docker) for easy local development environments: Docksal for beginners

Whether you are a lone web developer or part of a team, one of the biggest hassles is often just getting your development environment set up so that you can start helping out on a project. Options on how to setup a local web development environment have grown in numbers and types. Making sure that everyone  on a team has the correct programs installed with the correct version can eat up a lot of a project's time.

In this session we will go over the basics of how to use Docksal and its tool fin to manage your local development environments using Docker.

We will also look at:

• how to install Docksal
• how to to speed up on-boarding of other web developers to a project
• how to quickly share your local development environment with others.
• how to use addons to add services and tools to a project.
• basic customisations you can make to aid you in speeding up your development processes

The Docksal command fin is a command line tool but do not let that scare you away. fin is a powerful tool that will help you master using Docker based local web development environments.