#Kitematic mac how to
#Kitematic mac install
#Kitematic mac full

Just for those who have never heard of Docker (which may be few): Docker is a container virtualization that allows you to package up an application with all the parts and dependencies it needs. I was searching for ways to save as much ressources on my VM as possible and to make my development environment as flexible as possible and in time I became aware of Docker. This has to do with my history as Mac guy and my difficulties to adapt to the Windows system's behaviour. As strange as this may sound but I am developing Sitecore on a Mac with Windows running in a VM.

#Kitematic mac full

This extracted directory structure includes the full platform, your files are buried underneath the platform in the sites directory as shown below.Today I like to show you how Docker can be a really good companion for a Sitecore developer. This allows you to change the makefile and run the rebuild from makefile option or replace the database.sql file and have the next docker created use the new database. You can always rebuild the docker and if the directory matching the tar.gz exists it will not be overwritten. thingsĪfter the first time you extract the image it will not re-extract the backup over your files so you don’t have to worry about the docker image being deleted after use. You can point navicat or some other gui mysql at 192.168.99.100:3306 and access the database with drupal:drupal. To show what ports kitematic opened to the docker VM (80,443,3306) click the settings tab and then ports: If we change this to we get a self-signed certificate warning and after accepting your imminent death you can access a secured version of the site.

This is because Kitematic runs a headless virtualbox instance with docker inside of it. Notice the web address is not in the local subnet.

We see the logs of apache running in the terminal and if we click the red highlighted web preview area we get our backup opened in the default browser. We can restart apache if need be, run a drush registry rebuild, make a snapshot of the mysql database, enter the mysql CLI in the container, or open a shell at the site directory location to run additional drush commands in the container. We can make modifications to the makefile in our extracted directory and rebuild from it. Really for kitematic users the only part we care about this is the task menu portion. Now we are greeted with a fun interactive menu. The only real time you’d want to say no to this is if you’d like to run multiple backups at the same time and you don’t care about https. Here we want to start the container and normally we will say yes to binding on 80,443, and 3306 because this gives us https access to the site.

#Kitematic mac install

Install and open kitematic from current version is 0.7.2Ĭd into the drupal_docker folder we checked out earlier it should look something like this:Īnd you’re all set to get this backup up and running by running start.sh. After downloading it put it in the drupal_docker folder. Grab your from central by clicking Export and then Get. Let’s just dive in and clone the docker new-backup branch git clone -b new-backup

#Kitematic mac how to

Follow the instructions on my first blog post about how to get docker set up