Re:Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stac...
by viraptor on Sunday January 31, 2021 @06:09AM
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> To get everything identical you need to use a VM anyways.
Yes, which is where you can reach for firecracker for example. But docker gets you 95% there. If kernel makes a difference you can make the decision about the other 5%.
> Some languages bundle all of their dependencies so you can be relatively sure they will run the same on prod.
As long as they're static, vendored dependencies. Otherwise you're still likely to run into pulling something very common like openssl, zlib or libuv from the system.
Yes, which is where you can reach for firecracker for example. But docker gets you 95% there. If kernel makes a difference you can make the decision about the other 5%.
> Some languages bundle all of their dependencies so you can be relatively sure they will run the same on prod.
As long as they're static, vendored dependencies. Otherwise you're still likely to run into pulling something very common like openssl, zlib or libuv from the system.