Using Docker CE 17.05 Edge on Travis CI

For the last year, we’ve been using the wonderful docker-sync utility at work to improve performance on Docker for Mac.

For a veriety of reasons which I’ll get into another time, we’re switching to the new, native :cached implementation available in Docker 17.05 (Edge). Installing 17.05 Edge on Mac is straightforward; here are the steps for using this version on Travis CI.

In your .travis.yml file, add the following to pre_install:

pre_install:
- docker --version
- sudo apt-get remove docker-engine
- sudo apt-get -y install   apt-transport-https   ca-certificates   curl
- curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
- sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) edge"
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get -y install docker-ce=17.05.0~ce-0~ubuntu-trusty
- docker --version

You can now use the same docker-compose.yml file for both Docker for Mac and Travis CI!