A high-quality local environment is critical for enabling developers for efficient feature delivery. Docker, when utilized correctly, can simplify the maintenance of the local environment and remove the "it works on my machine” symptom. Join me on an insightful journey as I share years of successes and hard-earned lessons from harnessing Docker for consistent, hassle-free environments. We will review what Docker is and when to use it, how it changes the development accountabilities between teams, the architecture behind an efficient local environment to enable smooth pipelines and production deployment and will unveil valuable tips and real-world examples to optimize Docker usage and boost your development productivity.

This session will review when to and when not to utilize docker, process changes from both developer and operations perspective and the value to each, and provide basic examples to help people get started quickly. Examples use Docker and NodeJS.

I have delivered this at OLFConference and Stir Trek, and was well received. I have also received feedback at later dates on how useful this intro is and how teams have successfully implemented my strategies from this talk.