> Deploying software meant dealing with lots of operating system and distribution specific configuration But Docker didn't solve that at all, unless you consid

> Deploying software meant dealing with lots of operating system and distribution specific configuration But Docker didn't solve that at all, unless you consider "we only support Linux, so just run Linux or fuck you" as a "solution". And starting a Linux VM on Windows or macOS doesn't really count (and comes with a lot of issues). Containers as a concept are fine. Docker as an implementation is not very good. These are people who released a program in 2014 that can only run as root, which should say a thing or two about the engineering ethos. What is this, 1982? > All of that had to be orchestrated with complicated scripts. Hacking deploy scripts (and configure scripts and Makefiles) wasn't fun either, but at least I could understand it. Hacking on Docker once something goes wrong is pretty much impossible. It really is hugely over-engineered for what it does. You really really don't need a million lines of code to build and run containers on Linux. I've had a number of machines where binary JSON files in /var/lib/docker got corrupted and the only solution I've ever been able to find is "completely wipe away the lot and start from scratch". The entire overlayfs thing they have can really go haywire for reasons I've never been able to reproduce or figure out (and the "solution" is similar: wipe away /var/lib/docker and start from 0), and things like that. It all "works", but it's a hugely untransparent black box where your only solution when things go wrong is to shrug and give up (or spend days or even weeks on figuring it all out). I've had enough issues and outright bugs that I probably spent more time on Docker and docker-compose than I saved. At my last job I just bypassed the "official Docker development environment" with a few small shell scripts to run things locally, because it was a never-ending source of grief. I only had to support my own Linux system so I had it a bit easy, but it wasn't much more than running our programs with the right flags. The platform-specific stuff was "my-pkg-manager install postgres redis", and I don't see what's so hard about that.