[Brain dump so I don’t forget this one]

So you want your bash script to exit on an error but you’d like it to clean some stuff up before it closes after the error occurs.

No problem a TRAP can do this for you (read detailed docs for caveats).

In a very simple form it looks like this:

Learn more here: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bash-trap-command

For some testing I’m doing I need a set of images of a specific size to simulate pulling larger vs smaller image.

Here is a quick script I put together for generating a 200mb, 600mb, 1000mb and 2000mb image (tiny bit larger as alpine included). Took a while to work out best to use /dev/urandom not /dev/zero as with zero the images got compressed for transfer.

[Braindump – warning]

So I’ve been playing with devcontainers for Visual Studio Code, they’re awesome… go play with them. They let you use a Dockerfile to describe all the tooling needed for devs to get started with your project.

One of the side effects is that you have a nice Dockerfile which you can then also use it for your build server meaning that you never have an inconsistency between your local setup and your CI server.

In this example I build a golang project and use Azure DevOps and use caching to minimize the amount of time for each build.