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I believe they were alluding to jails as the alternative here.

• rattray 6y ago
  Docker solves a lot of problems. I don't want to use it, but I want an easy, cohesive to all those problems! Like, each type of application I have to run in my fleet needs the right environment, with proper settings, packages, etc. And when a developer at the company needs to work on that service locally, they need a prod-like env spun up quickly and simply that they can easily work in. There's many ways to do this, like "one prod box and ssh" but they all have tradeoffs...
  • bojo 6y ago
    My team uses https://www.chef.io/products/chef-habitat/ https://www.chef.io/products/chef-habitat/ to solve what you explained there. Worth taking the time to go through if you want repeatable builds, runtimes, and environments (be they bare metal, VM, or even docker).