I think we have very different ideas about the problem docker is the solution for. From the docker.com website ( https://www.docker.com/get-started https://www

I think we have very different ideas about the problem docker is the solution for. From the docker.com website ( https://www.docker.com/get-started https://www.docker.com/get-started ): > Building and deploying new applications is faster with containers. Docker containers wrap up software and its dependencies into a standardized unit for software development that includes everything it needs to run: code, runtime, system tools and libraries. This guarantees that your application will always run the same and makes collaboration as simple as sharing a container image. Basically I understand that as "write it on my machine, deploy it anywhere". "Everything it needs to run" are the dependencies in my lingo. So for me, all of this is dependency management. I have never asked for a way to drive a file system to a particular state, in the same way that I don't particularly care how a 'node_modules' folder is structured, as long as I can `require` whatever I want inside my programs. (My point is muddied by the other task docker fulfills for me: Software configuration by creating a directory structure with the following access rights here, writing an nginx config file there. But for me, the ideal scenario would be to reduce the accidental complexity involved in the configuration (I don't care where exactly my program is stored and how exactly it is called, I just want to run it at much reduced privileges and the way I know how to achieve that is to create a custom user and run my program under that user) and define the rest declaratively.)