I recently encountered a bug that only appeared in our ubuntu CI server but not in my local dev environment, which is a mac. After unsuccessfully trying out 2, 3 things (pushing, waiting for the pipelines) I thought "there must be a better way, a way to test this locally". Of course, docker comes to mind.
It's actually really easy to set up linux on your mac without bending over backwards! You'll simply need a command like this:
docker run -it --volume /path/to/repo:/repo ubuntu bashor if you have a specific image on your CI like in my case
docker run -it --volume /path/to/repo:/repo runnerimage bashWhat's happening here:
- The repository volume is mapped in, so you can reproduce what's happening in linux
- You're starting an interactive session with
-it: It's basically attaching you to the container. It's--interactive + --tty.
If you lose the connection to the container you can reattach to it with
docker exec -it container_name_or_id bash