enil/debian-dev-base repository overview

⁠debian-dev-base

A Docker⁠ image with my preferred development setup for quick hax and experimentation, for instance to explore or apply a quick fix to another container using --volumes-from or --link with docker run. The image is based on Debian 8.0 "Jessie"⁠.

The image has the basics for a comfortable development environment, and can be used as a base (thus the name) for more specialized images. Unlike the bare Debian image it includes man pages for quick access.

This image is available at the Docker Hub⁠ repository enil/debian-dev-base⁠.

⁠Overview

To launch the container, just run docker run -ti enil/docker-dev-base:latest.

• The additional packages included are zsh, vim, git, tmux, tree, sudo, man-db and manpages.
• The container launches into a zsh shell by default.
• The container launches as the user docker with membership in the sudo group.
• Dotfiles for zsh, vim and tmux are downloaded and installed from the repositories enil-zsh-dotfiles⁠, enil-vim-dotfiles⁠ and enil-tmux-dotfiles⁠ respectively.
• The script update.sh updates the environment variable REFRESHED_AT in the Dockerfile.
• The script rebuild.sh updates REFRESHED_AT and rebuilds the image.