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Re:Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies by SkyMarshal on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:15AM (#28376887)
>for cases where you want a reproducible build environment.

Or just create your reproducible build environment as a QEMU VM image instead of a docker file. That way you only have to install a VM image, instead of install VM image/OS + install Docker + install your Docker file.

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Re:Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies by horsawlarway on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:02PM (#28405947)
See, I don't really agree here.

Containers solve a different problem than vms. The biggest issues (at least for me) are

1. The second a dev starts using that VM, it's no longer reproducible. The goal of docker is that a developer can create reproducible images as a part of normal development.

2. I won't be running that QEMU vm in production, but I might very well be running the exact same container image in both development and production.

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Re:Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies by dolmen on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @12:43PM (#28382217)
Just the cost of porting one single Dockerfile to anything else is bigger than the Docker licence cost for 1 year.
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