Truth - I personally avoid doing so, but that’s only because I prefer not to introduce that extra layer of complexity into my stack due to lack of full understanding of the technology. There’s nothing stopping me from bothering to learn all the trade offs and pitfalls and doing so, but so far there hasn’t been enough of a compelling reason for me to go through that effort. I just go with the general advice “you usually don’t want to dockerize stateful applications” and leave it at that.

I was not referring to security, otherwise completely agree.