grim/docker-noop

Tweak the readme a bit

2015-11-06, Gary Kramlich
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Parents e3e429931ede
Children d0672a195d99
Tweak the readme a bit
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
  • +8 -5
    README.md
    • --- a/README.md Fri Nov 06 10:45:38 2015 -0600
    +++ b/README.md Fri Nov 06 10:57:22 2015 -0600
    @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
    links:
    - redis:redis
    -When I'm running this locally I typically have a separate redis running that's
    +When I'm running this locally, I typically have a separate redis running that's
    being used by multiple other apps. So I'll add a docker-compose.override.yml
    like the following
    @@ -25,8 +25,11 @@
    external_links:
    - redis:redis
    -What this does is remove all the existing links and then links to my already
    -running redis container. However, there is no way to disable a service with
    -docker-compose, so we override the redis in the docker-compose.yml to use the
    -noop container which is tiny and exits immediately.
    +What this does is remove all the existing links and then uses external_links to
    +link to my already running redis container. However, since there is no way to
    +disable a service with docker-compose, we override the redis in the
    +docker-compose.yml to use the noop container which is tiny and exits
    +immediately instead of sitting around wasting resources which can't be used by
    +anything else.
    +