Docker needs a way of specifying options to "docker run" in a file.

You shouldn't have to write all this:

docker run -i -t --volumes-from=shykes-dev -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -u 0 --name project -h project shykes/devbox bash

Instead, this could be in a file called .docker/config:

[run]
interactive=true
tty=true
volumes-from=shykes-dev
volume=/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
user=0
name=project
host=project
image=shykes/devbox
cmd=bash

Then you can just run docker run in the same directory as that file.

This is a bit like how .git/config works, where you can, for example, specify options under a [log] section that overrides options on git log.

You could also specify what file to use with the --config option, like so:

docker --config=/etc/docker/config run

If you want to disable the config and specify options manually, there could be a --no-config option.

Environment variables could be specified by using the env-file option.