Creating a development environment may seem like a trivial task for many developers. As time progresses, and we find ourselves dwelling through the life cycle of so many projects, one probably ends up with a fragile and cluttered development machine, filled with an entropic set of unmanageable services and library versions, ultimately getting to a point where things simply start to crack without any apparent reason.

With this small guide I hope to equip you with the set of tools and gears to create simple, manageable and isolated production-like development environments using Docker containers.