Agreed. Application runtime dependencies are a common source of communication breakdowns between development and infrastructure teams. Making the application

Agreed. Application runtime dependencies are a common source of communication breakdowns between development and infrastructure teams. Making the application container a maintained build file on the project improves this communication. docker provides: * a standard format for building container images (the Dockerfile) * a series of optimizations for working with images and containers (immutable architecture etc). * a community of pre-built images * a marketplace of hosting providers All at the cost of linux only, which is ok for many shops.