jekyll-docker

This repository contains everything needed to launch a jekyll website locally on your machine.

building your docker image

The docker image can be build using one of the following commands.

docker build -t <imagename> .
docker build -t <imagename> --build-arg jekyll_directory='<your existing directoy>' .

The first command builds an image with the empty template files. The second command builds an image with a jekyll site you already created. Make sure that the provided folder contains a Gemfile!

running your jekyll server

After your image was created you can run the server the following way:

docker run -it --rm --name <container_name> -p "<host port>:4000" <imagename[:tag]>

Alternatively, if you want to use a host directory:

docker run -it --rm --name <container_name> -p "4000:4000" -v $PWD:/home/jekyll/site <imagename[:tag]>

example

docker build -t jekylldocker .
docker run -it --name myserverinstance -p "4000:4000" jekylldocker

You can then reach your site under 0.0.0.0:4000 or use localhost as an entrypoint.