I have to say that Docker used to be very annoying to work with on Mac OS X but with the latest release of Docker Toolbox it has a much better "works out of the

I have to say that Docker used to be very annoying to work with on Mac OS X but with the latest release of Docker Toolbox it has a much better "works out of the box" experience. The article is pretty ranty but I can agree with the author that many things nowadays are way more complex than they have to be. As a plug, I'm going to say that this is one of the reasons why we started the CloudMonkey.io project. It lets you deploy a docker container with no fuss to production. It's up to you, however, to ensure that you don't over complicate your system unnecessarily. I've done the mistake in the past where very early on in the project I started using a web server, Redis, ElasticSearch, MySQL, memcached, RabbitMQ, etc. In most cases, more than three moving pieces only bring you headaches. Now I always try very hard to keep things simple to at most a web server and a database, plus maybe a memcached caching layer. If you need to have a queue or full text search functionality, I'd try to bring it in as an outside service.