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Once you have a hammer… One advantage of software containers is to have this unique interface that is the same whatever is inside the container. Like shipping c

• claytongulick 3y ago
  See, this is actually my problem with containers. "or a weird python container running only on specific version of Debian compiled during a blue moon" This. I guess I've been fortunate that I'm able to reject software like this from my stack. I know that everyone isn't so lucky. I mostly do nodejs, and have zero need for containers when a simple npm install gets all deps. Or if I need performance, a single go binary. I tried doing the container thing just to understand how it all works and what the hype is about. It seemed needlessly complex and hard to develop/debug. For more complex situations where you need a bunch of interacting programs and services, I prefer stuff like Ansible and VMs, or just manually setting up a base image. I guess it's a "get off my lawn" kind of thing. It seems like containers are used a lot by folks who don't want to learn ops, like how to install and configure postgres, redis, etc... I think that's a mistake, and just pushes the problem onto others who have to support the software in production.