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What’s wrong with shipping source code? Containers add huge complexity, for what?

• braza 3y ago
  I think complexity can have multiple interpretations, especially in a fragmented discipline as software engineering. However, at least for me containers solves 3 main source of problems to shipping code in a current software environment: (1) somewhat consistency around runtime environment between production, development and homologation (2) a portable way to deliver software (just create the image) and (3) packaging between source code and runtime. I started my career at the late-2000s and at least in my experience the code itself was the least of issues because we needed to develop something in a environment to be delivered at a runtime in another, transfer the files via FTP or replace files with _.old and making sure that it would work in all places.