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Docker was always intended to run in production. That was the goal from the beginning. The developers recommended against running it in production before the 1.
by twblalock 10y ago
Docker was always intended to run in production. That was the goal from the beginning. The developers recommended against running it in production before the 1.0 release because it was in beta. Developers of many products that are intended to run in production do the same thing before the first stable version is released.
That is not the same thing as saying that Docker was never intended to be used in production, and was only ever intended to be a development tool. That's the view I'm arguing against, and it's not trivial -- it denies the fundamental purpose of Docker.
- throwaway_exer 10y ago> Whether or not you like Docker, or think it works well in production, is immaterial to this. Actually I don't agree with that at all. Saying something is or will be ready for production with nothing to back that statement up is marketing, not reality. A similar example is Virtualbox. It's intended as a production VM, but I don't know anybody who does that. They use it for development and deploy to a different environment. Intentions are irrelevant when it just doesn't work reliably in reality.