Jekyll with dockers
To run jekyll generated static site with minimal setup and fuss, dockers comes to the rescue. This article is about to setup jekyll in the most easy way so that modification for your blog or site is easy.
Read how to setup jekyll from scratch.
Bootstrap Dockers.
Install Dockers and dockers-compose. The setup are straight forward.
Running Jekyll dockers
Go the directory where your site is and create file name docker-compose.yaml
with the following content.
version: '3'
services:
jekyll:
container_name: jekyll
image: jekyll/jekyll
ports:
- "4000:4000"
volumes:
- ".:/srv/jekyll"
command: jekyll serve --incremental --force_polling
Description.
- container_name : The name of the container. You can name anything you like relevant but this name will be use if you want to actually log-in to the docker container.
- image : The name of the image that need to pull from the dockers hub. This should not change.
- ports : The port where you want to expose the host to reach your site. Say http://localhost:4000/
- volumes : This tell to the containe to mount your current directory to the /srv/jekyll so that
jekyll serve can find your site.
- command : The entrypoint comment to run jekyll.
To run the jekyll container.
docker-compose up
If you want to run in background
docker-compose up -d
The site should be reachable at http://localhost:4000/
Should you require to log-in to the container
docker exec -it jekyll bash