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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:30PM (#21529812)
They gave up on packaging because its a nightmare that never ends. Conflicts, missing dependencies, old versions or no version available for your distro because of course there isn't just one package format.

Docker is still an over-engineered solution to this problem, but its popularity is evidence that there is in fact a problem.

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Re:Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise and Docker raises $35M by elsonrodriguez on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:44PM (#21529953)
Yep, the question was "package it as what?", and the answer was rarely ever "a statically linked linux executable."

This created the need for piles of configuration management or machine build scripts to deploy the app.

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