If you are not already experienced with it don't use $__TOOL__ . Your job/focus is ONLY to build a business not have cool tech. Think you are a Uber driver, cus

If you are not already experienced with it don't use $__TOOL__ . Your job/focus is ONLY to build a business not have cool tech. Think you are a Uber driver, customers don't care what is under the hood, or is the engine souped up , they just want something to go A-B. Having said that I can tell you for a solo cofounder some of the benefits of using docker. - Documentation of what environment you have to setup is time consuming / error prone and you will tend to less of that as single dev . That Makes it harder to hire and train new people or remember for yourself what exact version of something you used 6months back. Dockerfile is a great way to do that - HA and orchestration tooling with k8s or managed container platform services is not easy without defined environment like docker. That means autoscaling, automatic recreation/reboot etc can be handled 3 am in the morning without you waking up. - Scaling 1-2 is harder than scaling 0-1 . Setting up your environment to be treated like cattle and not Pets from day 1 goes a long way in that.