"That's why it's so frustrating to see developers making superficial forays into Docker and then declare it to be too complex. " That goes both ways. It's equa

"That's why it's so frustrating to see developers making superficial forays into Docker and then declare it to be too complex. " That goes both ways. It's equally frustrating to see developers making superficial forays into it and declaring it to be the magic bullet that makes everything simple. The basic fact is that building and deploying complex software, managing dependencies, handling discovery - these are all complex things. There is no solution that makes it simple because it is inherently not a simple process. Instead, we can only shuffle the complexity to places we're more comfortable in managing. For some use cases that's a dockerfile. For others, it's chef cookbooks [or other CM solution]. For yet others, it's both.