Syncing Files with Docker-Compose Watch

Posted by linuxer on Mar 9, 2025 3:19 AM CST
linuxconfig.org; By Egidio Docile
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When using Docker to create portable and easy reproducible development environments, we need to found a way to make changes to our codebase, immediately effective inside containers, without the need to re-build them each time. A possible solution consists into mounting host directories directly inside containers; this, however, requires breaking containers isolation and portability, since they become dependant on the host directory structure. To solve this problem, we can use docker-compose watch.

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