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If you have multiple people on your team, a common dev environment can be a huge time-saver. New developers can install an identical environment quickly. Anoth
by jives 12y ago
If you have multiple people on your team, a common dev environment can be a huge time-saver. New developers can install an identical environment quickly.
Another benefit is that your project's development environment is self-contained. It's not going to clash with anything else on your system, and will even work across platforms.
- alaskamiller 12y agoMore direct question: Our team uses virtualenv and pip install from requirement lists. What additional benefits does Docker offer?
- scott_karana 12y agoI'm guessing easy resource allocation, either through local machine quotas/cgroups or the easier ability to move specific services to different machines as you need to scale them.
- radnam 12y agoYou can do a pip install of python bindings but not the source package itself. For e.g., pip install redis gets you python bindings for the redis but not redis itself. With this setup, you can install a specific version of redis, run it as a service with your custom configuration right out of the box.
- alaskamiller 12y agoThat's a good benefit for consideration, thanks for the answer.