Here’s the situation: I have a docker-compose-based project, and 2 workflows in CI, mostly for testing. One workflow for PHP (using circleci/php docker image) and one for NodeJS (using circleci/node docker image). I wonder whether the circleci images are useful or not, but all I need is docker & d…

Yep, this question comes up about once a fortnight :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: [image] How to correctly mount my file/system or application files using docker compose? Build Environment The problem is that, by virtue of the CircleCI architecture, you cannot use on-host…

So, this basically means that I should change the way I work with compose on CircleCI? With what I see on this linked issue is that I should build the image with all the source code inside it (with COPY dockerfile rules) and run it?

[image] Pierstoval: I should build the image with all the source code inside it That is one solution, yes. Since you are doing Docker builds, you don’t need the (larger) CircleCI convenience image - just use a Docker image instead.

I’ve tested using the image directly, but first it doesn’t allow me to use the Makefile I provide for dev & ci because it’s docker-compose based, and second I have permission issues because it seems I can’t share the composer/npm cache to make my builds faster :frowning:

@Pierstoval Have you tried running this is the machine executor rather than the docker executor?

Docker-compose setup: messed up volumes

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halfer September 15, 2018, 7:42pm 2

Yep, this question comes up about once a fortnight

… I got caught out by this bug too at some point!

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