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Discussion on: A Curated List of Docker Extensions

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Ajeet Singh Raina • Edited

Thanks for the feedback.

Did you try the latest version of Docker Desktop? The latest version of Docker support VirtioFS that improves the overall performance of Docker Desktop. Give a try and let me know your thoughts.

Regarding Docker Extension query, here are my thoughts - Most of the time you spend time in setting up your software stack. For example, I heavily used RedisInsight - a Redis UI tool in the past. The tool helped me in inserting Redis keys, query, visualize and manipulate Graph data which was difficult to browse via CLI, connect to remote Elasticache instance, perform memory profiling, slowlog browsing etc. Now there was a challenge to bring the latest version of RedisMod Docker container everytime it is released as it needs to be compiled and tested. One way to tackle this problem is using Extension.

Imagine there is a RedisInsight Docker extension that is provided and supported by Docker, Inc. I don't really to burn out extra hours to bring it up and running. Just one click and I am done.

Look at ready-to-use Docker image provided by Docker Desktop. You can bring up multiple instance of Redis, Mongo, Elasticache, Memcached etc instance in a single click.

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Ahmad

thank you very much for the thoughtful response!
I can see what you mean now that you explained it and I'll have to use it before commenting further.
I really like the one click deploy aspect aswell! with potential auto config..interesting