Should we use Docker 🐳 for local development ❓? It seems easy to argue to not use it, just use local and that’s it. But it’s also easy to find cases where the convenience of Docker play a big role on a daily basis job. In case you want to consider it for any reason you have it read this post and have fun.

You may have some docker 🐳 containers 📦 to start your app but there are some startup order to be followed. You are probably using a solution such as docker-compose and wonder why they don’t have this implemented yet? On this blog post I’ll present my solution for this problem, a very simple shell script for waiting a container.