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Why You Should Stop Installing Your WebDev Environment Locally
- hbcondo714 11y agoSince Microsoft's official container service was just posted on HN [1], I thought this article would be a good read for re-introducing Containers which talks about its origins in the shipping industry and how it directly relates to the software industry. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11527668 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11527668
- joesmo 11y agoDocker is great, but there can still be subtle differences even for the same image that cause different problems in different environments. The same docker file in my experience does not run the same in all environments always. And if you want to mount a filesystem into the container do you can update code in real time all bets are off. I'm sure many of these issues will be resolved as docker matures. YMMV