> Yes, and it's doubly pointless here, because it isn't doing anything that couldn't be done better by the OS's own package manager. No, not really. With Docke

> Yes, and it's doubly pointless here, because it isn't doing anything that couldn't be done better by the OS's own package manager. No, not really. With Docker, packaging is a solved problem, and you also get for free a deployment history which you can roll back and forward at will. You also get introspection and blue/green deployments, and if you really want to you can also setup a cluster of nodes for free where you can run whole application stacks with a one-liner. There is really no excuse to do things the hard way.