NInickjj·Dec 29, 2018
(Your edit makes my reply make a lot less since since you removed all of your original questions, but I'll leave my original reply, read the part after number 7)
My set up is basically this:
1. I use WSL as my day to day programming environment with the Ubuntu WSL terminal + tmux[0]. It's where I run a bunch of Linux tools and interact with my source code.
2. I have Docker for Windows installed (since the Docker daemon doesn't run directly in WSL yet due to missing Linux kernel features like iptables, etc.).
3. I installed Docker and Docker Compose inside of WSL but the daemon doesn't run in WSL. I just use the Docker CLI to communicate with Docker for Windows using DOCKER_HOST, so docker and docker-compose commands seamlessly work inside of WSL from my point of view[1].
4. All of my source code lives on a spinning disk drive outside of W
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SL which I edit with VSCode which is installed on Windows.
5. That source code drive is mounted into WSL using /etc/wsl.conf at / (but fstab works just as well)[2].
6. That source code drive is also shared with Docker for Windows and available to be used as a volume in any container.
7. All of my Dockerized web apps are running in Linux containers, but using this set up should be no problem if you use Windows containers I guess? I never used Windows containers, but that seems out of scope for WSL / Docker CLI. That comes down to Docker for Windows.
But, it's worth mentioning I have installed Ruby directly in WSL and didn't use Docker, and things are still just as fast as with Docker volumes. In fact, I run Jekyll directly in WSL without Docker because I really like live reload and I couldn't get that to work through Docker. My blog has like 200+ posts and 50+ drafts, and if I write a new blog post, Jekyll reloads the changes in about 3 seconds, and that's with Jekyll-Assets too. I have a feeling it wouldn't be that much faster even on native Linux since Jekyll is kind of slow, but I'm ok with a 3 second turn around considering it does so much good stuff for me.
[0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/conemu-vs-hyper-vs-terminus-v...
[1]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-docker-for-windows...
[2]: https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/master/etc/wsl.conf