Docker at Shopify: How We Built Containers that Power Over 100,000 Online Shops - Shopify

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This post details the creation of Shopify's production Docker base image, advocating for 'thin' containers and the '100 rule' for shared services. It outlines environment setup by transliterating Chef recipes into Dockerfiles, discusses containerizing applications with specific conventions for code layout and Git repos, and emphasizes the 'compile' phase for producing ready-to-run containers. It also touches on debugging techniques and the use of `docker exec`.