persistent-docker-history

Project showing how to setup persistent shell history in a docker container

• I often use commandline inside docker containers.
• I don't like to type same commands over and over again.
• So I use docker-compose volume to keep the history in the project directory instead of docker container.
• I usually populate the history with useful commands and commit them to git so anyone who clones the project can use them.
• And then I just leave the file alone and use it as personal docker history for the project.

Try it!

1. Clone this repo git clone git@github.com:curusarn/persistent-docker-history.git
2. Run make docker
3. Use arrow up to get previous commands or whatever

Configure persistent history for your existing docker-compose

1. Add .docker_bash_history:/root/.bash_history to volumes in your docker-compose.yaml
2. Run touch .docker_bash_history (OR something like echo 'echo "it works!"' > .docker_bash_history)
3. Use docker-compose run ... as usual

Prerequisities

• docker
• docker-compose
• standard stuff (make, other things I can't think of right now)