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OP here. For all the goodness offered by Docker to deploy apps, sometimes a good old debian package is all that's needed. The format is widely supported and bat
by crohr 13y ago
OP here. For all the goodness offered by Docker to deploy apps, sometimes a good old debian package is all that's needed. The format is widely supported and battle-tested, while Docker requires specificities under the form of kernel version, additional software to install, and additional operational knowledge.
In short, if you already have a working Docker installation, you probably don't need PKGR, though nothing prevents you from building your containers by simply apt-get install'ing the app instead of having 10's of RUN commands to install the dependencies.
- mwcampbell 13y agoI could see pkgr being useful for creating an on-premises "enterprise" version of a web app, in situations where the target customers would like to deploy it on their own Debian or Ubuntu machines. Docker is a bit too cutting edge for that scenario.
- jpdlla 13y agoThis is exactly the same scenario I had in mind. This would allow projects to have an easier way to distribute some kind of Enterprise version of a web app. Will definitely take a look.