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Goodbye Docker on CentOS, Hello Ubuntu

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Re: Goodbye Docker on CentOS, Hello Ubuntu

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I would rather say "goodbye docker", period. Having used it a bit, I have concluded that it is just not a very good or mature tool. Once you scratch under the surface, things cease to be easy or stop working at all. It makes you wonder how it's been this long and nobody stumbled upon an issue that you uncover 30 minutes into tool's use. Docker does have it's uses, but in the majority of cases you are better off using…

Having worked for some time with configuration management and backend development and seeing the growing pains that happen after any "non-trivial" use case of it like: obscure declarative languages/DSLs, tangled messes of declarative vs scripted configurations, inter-dependencies that are not so obvious until you hit a corner case, etc., I can say that Docker has been a breeze, even when I encounter a breaking bug in…

> Having worked for some time with configuration management and backend development and seeing the growing pains that happen after any "non-trivial" use case of it like: obscure declarative languages/DSLs, tangled messes of declarative vs scripted configurations, inter-dependencies that are not so obvious until you hit a corner case, etc., I can say that Docker has been a breeze, even when I encounter a breaking bug in a new release that breaks it somehow.

I don't really see how the Docker model is better. I wouldn't trust a person who wrote a terrible Puppet file to work on a Docker container.

I can understand that from a Devops point a view, it's more convenient, however you can easily just build a VM image with Puppet and deploy that to your billions of servers.

Re: Goodbye Docker on CentOS, Hello Ubuntu

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I would rather say "goodbye docker", period. Having used it a bit, I have concluded that it is just not a very good or mature tool. Once you scratch under the surface, things cease to be easy or stop working at all. It makes you wonder how it's been this long and nobody stumbled upon an issue that you uncover 30 minutes into tool's use. Docker does have it's uses, but in the majority of cases you are better off using…

You say that as if its a bad thing. Isnt the evolution in development within making it more intuitive? I love the 10,000 line man page as much as the next dev, except I Dont. Docker solves a problem, standizing scalability and microservices without the need to think about whether its on the same or diff machines from developing the application. Honestly, I think it could be better. I wouldnt mind if the volume concep…

Have you tried Chef, Puppet, Ansible etc?
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