docker-sync support

[bsormagec]

I think docker-sync support will be good for mac because docker has poor performance on osx. Can you add this to devilbox ?

[cytopia]

@bsormagec thanks for pointing it out. Can you direct me to some more documentation about this.

[bsormagec]

Sure,

https://github.com/EugenMayer/docker-sync/wiki/2.-Configuration

[vzlatev]

Hello,

Any plans to include it in the upcoming releases - on OSX without docker-sync web apps are awfully slow.

Regards

[coredevel]

+1, without docker-sync there are a couple of options for os x when mounting shares using bind mounts:

• consistent or default: The default setting with full consistency, as described above.
• delegated: The container runtime’s view of the mount is authoritative. There may be delays before updates made in a container are visible on the host.
• cached: The macOS host’s view of the mount is authoritative. There may be delays before updates made on the host are visible within a container.

(Source: https://docs.docker.com/engine/admin/volumes/bind-mounts/#configure-mount-consistency-for-macos)

Unfortunately though none of them appear to resolve the bi-directional sync without huge performance overheads (in the case of the default consistent setting) or persistence issues (e.g. if uploading images to a cms and building up a site's content locally with the docker container instance). Using vagrant in the past for large Magento builds I tried both unison and gatling-rsync, the latter being more performant and the final solution chosen which worked wonders. It ended up being a v similar setup to the docker-sync native_osx implementation, more reading material here:

• http://docker-sync.io/
• https://github.com/EugenMayer/docker-sync
• https://github.com/EugenMayer/docker-sync/wiki/How-does-native_osx-work-with-OSXFS-and-is-still-native-speed-fast%3F

As an aside a short term workaround to resolve performance issues at the moment is to use memcache/redis caching which works really well, managed to get a basic WordPress instance sub 80ms fully rendered in the browser!

[mad99]

Any news about a well usable and reasonably fast system under osx?

Have tried to extend the Makefile on my own (process to include docker-sync-stack). But it does not work well...
Maybe someone else is also to try to do this way. Would great to share or hear from news in this directions!

[cytopia]

This is still on the agenda, however the roadmap is currently really filled and me alone working on that takes some time. Probably somebody wants to jump in on this issue and submit a PR.

[johnwbaxter]

I tried setting up docker-sync but ended up somehow making docker use 400% cpu...will try again though as it's almost unusable on OSX as it stands.

[johnwbaxter]

@cytopia What would it cost to sponsor you to move this to the top of the list?

[cytopia]

@johnwbaxter I'd rather have someone helping me on this issue, as I dont' have a Mac at the moment. So I cannot get sponsored on this one and make an unreliable promises/guess. But thank you for bringing this up.