Comment by forrestthewoods

6 hours ago

One of my deeply unpopular opinions is that Docker only exists because Linux as a bad operating system that is incapable of deploying Docker. I have not once worked on a project where “we’ll solve this with Docker!” didn’t result in never ending Docker fixes and workarounds and hacks.

This is not a slight on Docker itself. It’s a slight on the conditions that induced Docker to exist.

One of the great selling points of one of my projects is “this is easy to run without needing Docker”.

It's just an "almost" zero-cost abstraction layer for running complex service stacks and workloads on Linux. And damn, it's just so convenient and neat.