> I am not saying that Dockerfiles are good. But I also think that knowing the tool you use differentiates you from being a rookie to an experienced professiona

> I am not saying that Dockerfiles are good. But I also think that knowing the tool you use differentiates you from being a rookie to an experienced professional. I agree in general, though I'd also add that a tool requiring somebody to know and avoid a large number of footguns is what differentiates a tool from being a prototype and being production-ready. While Docker has a large number of features, the number of gotchas makes it feel like something that should only be used in hobby projects, never in production. In the end, I ended up making several scripts to automate the generation and execution of dockerfiles for my common use cases. I trust myself to proceed cautiously around the beartraps once. I don't trust myself to sprint through a field of beartraps if there's a short deadline.