> The pushback I have received from some is that "with docker it shouldn't matter, and whatever I do on my PC you can just pick up and drop in place", with a co

> The pushback I have received from some is that "with docker it shouldn't matter, and whatever I do on my PC you can just pick up and drop in place", with a complete lack of regard for the fact that their PC is not that same as our production environment. Yes. This misconception is the main promise made in Docker's marketing, so it's no surprise that people who've gobbled it up are unhappy when confronted with the fact that the pixie dust and the lands of eternal rainbow-sunshines are fantasies. (Sidenote: it's sad how non-admin-capable developers interpret the promise of demoting ops to mindless button-pushers as fantasy fulfillment, but that's an issue for another time). Docker had a massive bonfire of VC money to perpetuate these false beliefs, and the message has been magnified by BigCos like Google, who've placed it at the center of their corporate strategy to retake cloud. Unfortunately, in most cases, the Direction-Setter is not going to take the credit for being misled and needing to double back and fix it. They just lob it over the wall to RealOps, courtesy of DevOps(TM), and expect them to be grateful for it. Meanwhile, RealOps's job is much harder than before, because you have the ignoramus shouting "What are you talking about?! You just don't know how to use this revolutionary new technology from DOCKER and GOOGLE! Are you smarter than Google, Bob? I coded up a whole Dockerfile over lunch!" We have a lot of naive, self-important dilettantes in tech these days, trying to act like the 4 minutes they spent skimming the Docker manual make them smarter than the greybeard who just doesn't have the time for every painfully empty fad on the block. We should talk about how we can stop that infiltration.