Local development workflow with Docker for Mac

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What is the recommended workflow for Nomad on macOS?

I’ve got a Dockerfile and want to be able to pull this into Nomad from Docker for Mac. I’ve tried building a local image and setting the image name within Nomad, but it says “Not found” as I assume it’s trying to pull it from Docker Hub.

It’d be appreciated if people share their development workflows. I don’t really want to keep pushing to a remote registry, only to pull it down to the same machine to test the nomad jobs.

Regards,
-Mathew

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Hi Matthew. Nomad looks locally first for Docker images before attempting to pull from Docker Hub. When building the dev Docker image you wish to run, are you adding a non-latest tag? Could you also provide the job specification config snippet also?

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Interesting, didn’t know about the latest tag causing issues. Tested again and can confirm when using a non “latest” tag it works as expected. Thanks for your help @jrasell

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