A Dockerfile for building a Meteor container that can be used during development.
Updated Meteor to version 0.9.1.
download the trusted
golden/meteor-dev pre-built container from the docker.io
shared repository.
docker pull golden/meteor-dev
run Meteor using the source code in the /path/to/meteor/app directory
docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v /path/to/meteor/app:/opt/application -w /opt/application golden/meteor-dev
The Meteor application is now accessible on port 3000 of the localhost (http://localhost:3000).
The app directory (/opt/application) could be located anywhere in the image.
build your own image (meteor-dev) from this github repo
docker build --tag="meteor-dev" git://github.com/golden-garage/meteor-dev
run Meteor using the image you built (meteor-dev)
docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v /path/to/meteor/app:/opt/application -w /opt/application meteor-dev
First, install docker.
Then, build your own Meteor container directly from this github repo. It will be tagged locally as meteor-dev.
docker build --tag="meteor-dev" git://github.com/golden-garage/meteor-dev
Finally, run the container attached to a local Meteor source code directory (e.g. /path/to/meteor/app).
docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v /path/to/meteor/app:/opt/application -w /opt/application meteor-dev
You can view the running Meteor application in a web browser at http://127.0.0.1:3000.
The docker run command runs interactively (-t -i) so that you can see the output of Meteor as it is running.
Your application's source code is mounted (-v) in the docker container at /opt/application. The Meteor server is started in this directory (-w /opt/application). It is not necessary to mount the application at /opt/application, you can define your own mountpoint in the docker image.
If you are using meteorite installed smart-packages, they will be automatically be installed when Meteor is started.
meteor-dev containerWhen you make changes to the source code of your Meteor app (located in the local directory /path/to/meteor/app/),
the instance of Meteor running in the meteor-dev container will automatically update the running application and you will see the changes immediately in the browser, just as if Meteor was running on your desktop machine.
Press ^C in the window where the meteor-dev container is running, and the container will be stopped.
If you instead press ^P ^Q in the contianer window, the container will be released but not stopped. You can see the container is still running by using the docker ps command.
The running container can be used to create a new docker image.
docker commit --run='{"WorkingDir":"/opt/application","Cmd":["meteor"]}' container-id
Each time you use docker run to start Meteor, you are creating a new container with a fresh install of Meteor.
You can clean up stopped containers by using docker rm.
This command will remove all your docker containers:
for i in $(docker ps -a |awk '!/^C/ {print $1}'); do docker rm $i; done
Docker is really easy to use from Linux. For other operating systems, workarounds are required.
Content type
Image
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237.4 MB
Last updated
about 11 years ago
docker pull laosb/meteor-dev