I'm a bit of a docker cynic, but if you tell me I have to deploy any of Ruby, Python, Node.js, or Perl, I'm using docker to manage the dependencies. My opinion

I'm a bit of a docker cynic, but if you tell me I have to deploy any of Ruby, Python, Node.js, or Perl, I'm using docker to manage the dependencies. My opinion is that this is actually docker's primary value-add. Yes, it enables who hosts of orchestration benefits, but it also makes it actually possible to just package these runtimes in a reasonable-ish way. For platforms which support more self-contained binaries, I'm going to keep trying to avoid docker as much as possible.