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>I've found that for my side projects (I'm still a student) Docker has vastly decreased the pain in deploying my projects. I used to have "but it works on my ma

>I've found that for my side projects (I'm still a student) Docker has vastly decreased the pain in deploying my projects. I used to have "but it works on my machine" moments but now using the same container in production is super awesome! Thats a far stronger reason to use Docker - as I'm sure people have wrestled with this issue when trying to use Capistrano/Grunt/Ansible to deploy as well.

k__ 11y ago
But "It's popular" seems to be one of the main reasons. Otherwise more people would use Nix.
- tayo42 11y ago
  How does nix offer any of the advantages that docker does? Isn't it just another way to do config management? Plus the added complexity of using a very niche os. It seems like it's not popular for a reason...
  - icebraining 11y ago
    Nix is a package manager with isolation, not a config manager. And it runs on any Linux distro or even Mac OS X, you don't need to use NixOS. https://nixos.org/nix/ https://nixos.org/nix/