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More broadly, containers solve the problem of reproducibility. No longer does software get to vomit crap all over your file system in ways that make reproducing
by sjwright 7y ago
More broadly, containers solve the problem of reproducibility. No longer does software get to vomit crap all over your file system in ways that make reproducing a functioning environment frustrating and troublesome. They have the effect of side-stepping the dependencies problem, but that isn’t the core benefit.
- senderista 7y agoBut the images themselves are not easily reproducible with standard build tooling.
- sjwright 7y agoTrue—but that's far less of a problem, because it rarely occurs unexpectedly and under a time crunch. Diffing two docker images to determine the differences between builds would be far less onerous than attempting to diff a new deployment against a long-lived production server.