Earlier quoted context omitted.
Docker may be overkill to start but it's relatively low cost to implement and it will definitely pay dividends over time: * You can be sure that what you're running locally is exactly what you'll be running on the server * Your deployment experience will be the same regardless of which tech stack you're using for the web application * There are many places you can deploy docker containers (Google GCE, Amazon ECS, Ama…
> it's relatively low cost to implement Running Docker in production takes a huge amount of effort to get right and is not easily done.
I could have been clearer. I meant that setting up docker for his use case i.e. a single 'standard' web application, is relatively easy. Especially if you're using something like Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. At least, that's been my experience.
You're right that docker can become very complex e.g. dockerizing and orchestrating mariadb with galera for high availability was not pleasant.