I believe what the person you're replying to is trying to say is: there is no need to build a Dockerfile for Erlang when using releases. Create a release for th

I believe what the person you're replying to is trying to say is: there is no need to build a Dockerfile for Erlang when using releases. Create a release for the target OS and simply start it from ebin. It comes with a VM packaged and can be run with zero dependencies. You can easily run it in a vanilla ubuntu image on k8s or mesos. No problem whatsoever running it directly on mesos without Docker overhead.