Creating a Custom Production Docker Image for Meteor 1.3

deployment
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I just wrote a new blog post about building your own custom Docker image for Meteor 1.3. Hope some of you can find it helpful!

http://markshust.com/2016/02/01/creating-custom-production-docker-image-meteor-13

Cheers,
Mark

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How long does it take to rebuild your container after you’ve changed some of your app source code?

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It takes under 5 minutes for the whole process to complete, from build to
Docker build complete.

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I wonder if there is anyway to get that down; we are using a version of meteord that also caches downloading/installing Meteor so we have comparable build times, but compared to our other build times 5 minutes is quite long. For example, I bet if we could cache all of the package dependencies that would help significantly.

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I don’t think 5 minutes is too bad. I was getting 12-15 minutes with meteord and meteor 1.2 – that was painful.

There may be a way to cache, but I’m not sure if it would affect the consistency of the build. Worried about artifacts that stem up from not working from clean build every time.

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@veered fyi just timed it, took 3 minutes 20 seconds to build. my 5 minutes before included pushing upstream to registry.