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Re:Boycott Docker by user5994461 on Monday October 24, 2016 @12:37PM (#12780386)
Use packer for EVERYTHING https://www.packer.io/ => better tools + avoid locking

As a benefit, you use ansible/chef/puppet for the installation and configuration (instead of Dockerfile). You can reuse your scripts.

As a benefit, you generate any output DockerImage/AWS-AMI/VmWare/VirtualBox. You have more flexibility. (e.g. Make an AMI for auto scaling groups + make a docker image for test environment).

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Re:Boycott Docker by elsonrodriguez on Monday October 24, 2016 @03:59PM (#12782298)
I dig packer, but it's getting pretty hard to find a cloud provider or on-prem solution that doesn't take a Docker image as an artifact.
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