Comment by man8alexd

The irony is that the majority of docker images are built from the same packages and break all the same. But in your eyes, `apt install package` is bad but `RUN apt install package` inside a `Dockerfile` somehow makes it reproducible. I suspect you are confusing "having an artifact" with "reproducible builds" [1]. Having a docker image as an artifact is the same as having tar/zip with your application and its dependencies or having a filesystem snapshot or having VM image like AMI/OVM/VMDK. You can even have a deb file with all your dependencies vendored in.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds