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My 2018 joke has been implemented. > Or Gocker, an implementation of Docker in go... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16119842
With the advent of search engines I discovered that any story I can come up with actually happened somewhere in the world and has an article about it already.
Can someone explain the value/purpose of docker to someone who (easily) deploys regular apps to a Digital Ocean droplet?
Reproducibility is the biggest value in my opinion. A Dockerfile encapsulates all the messy dependencies in a single isolated environment. This also makes deployments easier too.
Keeping a Dockerfile uptodate can be hell, especially if you have many apps that need to be patched... Updating base image is not sufficient, gotta update all downstream dockerfiles as well :-/
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While I tend to agree, I think LoC can give a sense of scale for large systems and at least a tiny bit of insight about its potential complexity. I recently worked with a client on an integration effort that had to touch many different points on a (massive, for me) codebase with tens of millions of LoC. For that, LoC was the only reasonable metric I could come up with to try and convey the scale and complexity of the…
I assume you probably can't share the client, but can you share the general domain of the software?
My 2018 joke has been implemented. > Or Gocker, an implementation of Docker in go... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16119842
Lol. Should link the root though, plenty of suggestions for others: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16117172
My 2018 joke has been implemented. > Or Gocker, an implementation of Docker in go... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16119842
As a kid I was a compulsive liar and would make up non-existent stories. With the advent of search engines I discovered that any story I can come up with actually happened somewhere in the world and has an article about it already.
Pretty cool, and very educational for people not familiar with how these things work That said (and I've said this before), this is not really Docker. It's running containers, not the same thing. If you want to compare it to anything, it's runc, but that's not a good headline :) Not that the docker architecture is that clean, but it is the combination of ideas it brought to the table what made docker docker: - have A…
I don’t know, gunc is a pretty good name.
Here's one in 100 lines of bash called, what else, "bocker": https://github.com/p8952/bocker
Can someone explain the value/purpose of docker to someone who (easily) deploys regular apps to a Digital Ocean droplet?
The joke that I think actually explains it pretty well is that it eliminates the "well it works on _my_ machine" problem, by not just shipping the code, but shipping the machine.
It's not the equivalent of handing over a VM image. You're still open to unintended sensitivity to kernel versions, for instance.