Tips and tricks

This section collects practical patterns that come up often when working with airlock day-to-day. None of this is required reading, but it can save you some time.

Pairing with mise shows how to use mise as a task runner alongside airlock — installing airlock as a mise tool, building local Docker images for sandboxes, and loading secrets per task.

Docker inside the VM covers two approaches for running Docker containers inside an airlock sandbox: forwarding the host Docker socket (easy but comes with caveats) and running a full Docker engine inside the VM.