Running a successful developer workshop (aka tutorial) is really difficult. I’ve attended enough workshops that have gone poorly to know that for a fact. Participating in such a workshop can be very frustrating and a huge turn off for whatever technology is being presented. That translates directly into losing developer mindshare. I think we, as an industry, can do a better job of running developer workshops.

The goal of this post is to develop an application in an environment that’s as close to your remote deployment environment as possible. Let’s do this using Docker Machine and Compose to move an app from local development to remote deployment.