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Goodbye Docker: Purging Is Such Sweet Sorrow

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Re: Goodbye Docker: Purging Is Such Sweet Sorrow

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> was likely due to a script that had got out of hand starting up too many containers. So there wasn't any actual problem with Docker, it was the OP's own problem that they "solved" by switching container platforms instead of just fixing their own buggy script?

I facepalmed when I read that...

This is an all too common problem in development and it's made me very skeptical of coworkers at times who use it "X technology doesn't work or X is garbage" as a justification to switch technologies or spend time prototyping several alternatives.

I'm not gonna say Docker is a perfect tool by any stretch either.

Re: Goodbye Docker: Purging Is Such Sweet Sorrow

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> was likely due to a script that had got out of hand starting up too many containers. So there wasn't any actual problem with Docker, it was the OP's own problem that they "solved" by switching container platforms instead of just fixing their own buggy script?

I facepalmed when I read that... This is an all too common problem in development and it's made me very skeptical of coworkers at times who use it "X technology doesn't work or X is garbage" as a justification to switch technologies or spend time prototyping several alternatives. I'm not gonna say Docker is a perfect tool by any stretch either.

It was on his home servers and he got a valid point regarding redundant daemon in docker. So I don't understand why you facepalm because its not your business what he runs at home or how he rocks his boat.

Re: Goodbye Docker: Purging Is Such Sweet Sorrow

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Docker is the Myspace of container engines. It's stupidly unreliable, at least on MacOs. I've resorted to running system prune every week or so to keep it from getting totally out of control.

Reminds me of NPM and rm-rfing node_modules on every build. I can't wait till something comes along to replace it.

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