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> absolutely ground breaking, unlike anything else Containers existed for decades as a concept and for years on Linux (using lxc or VirtSquare and later nspawn

• johannes1234321 6y ago
  It is true that the technologies existed for a while. I played with (Free)BSD jails and Solaris Zones long before Docker. Docker however made things "trivial" with the integration from container building, to public registry and docker-compose, which can make developer lives (depending on domain) much nicer. With jails and zones it was never as convenient.
  • seniorThrowaway 6y ago
    That was docker's real value add, making it easy and developer centric. Previous containerization technologies were heavily ops-centric. I come from an ops background and I remember thinking at the time that Docker was in some ways a developer workaround to barriers that ops set up to limit what they could do and protect them from themselves.
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