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Re:Docker in Production: A History of Failure by wmf on Friday November 04, 2016 @11:55AM (#12873545)
Don't forget that DotCloud/Docker was originally basically a clone of Heroku, where "12 factor" dictated that all persistent data was stored in (non-containerized) Postgres.
Re:Docker in Production: A History of Failure by shykes on Friday November 04, 2016 @04:44PM (#12875949)
That's incorrect. Dotcloud ran both stateless and stateful services on the same container fabric, unlike Heroku and every other PaaS. Specifically you could run a managed containerized postgres, mysql, mongodb, redis, rabbitmq, and custom stateful tcp services. Docker was a result of that design.

Docker was specifically designed to NOT impose a model of ephemeral containers. For example, by default 'docker run' preserves all data.