These sorts of things usually take longer to get working than equivalent software distributed as a conventional Linux package or to be built from source. Yes,

These sorts of things usually take longer to get working than equivalent software distributed as a conventional Linux package or to be built from source. Yes, but they are done once, and forced to ship the docker image. The stupid amount of time we've spent looking for that one package dependency because someone forgot that they installed something to make a project work... Or the classic we setup SSL, no one knows how they setup SSL once they are done, etc. Docker forces a lot of the infrastructure decisions that devs make in their sandbox to be actually well defined. Not that it makes their choices any more sane, safer, secure. At least someone can take a look at the mess and replicate it, as many time as they want, quickly, break it, fix it, upgrade it, without ever requesting a dev VM build, having sysops install preqs, etc. Is docker work? Everything is work. Do I think docker should be the default go to? No I'd like for people to use app services and simply perform the build on the app node, but that magic is even harder to debug and troubleshoot.