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Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by lelanthran on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:30AM (#36889311)
> Being able to run self contained postgres with a single command is an easy ergonomic win. You don't necessarily need to be an engineer or write code for containers to be useful.

Postgres is a poor example; it's far far easier to do `apt-get install postgresql` than to run it from a container.

The latter needs a container set up with correct ports, plus it needs to be pointed at the correct data directory before it is as usable as the former.

Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by imtringued on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:57PM (#36898458)
Is this some kind of joke? Those things are absolutely trivial and once you wrote them in your bash script or compose file you can forget about these things.