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Re:PackagingCon – a conference only for software package man... by alfalfasprout on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @10:47PM (#37058152)
NOPE. Docker neatly encapsulates the problem and allows you to somewhat ship a reproducible deployment... until something needs to be updated. Now either you rebuild your image (which may not be reproducible) or patch it (which comes with its own share of problems). Caching can also be a nightmare if your image is built from common stages. Dealing with vulnerabilities is also a pain especially for things already in production.

Docker (or container images in general) are great but they solve a limited set of problems well and tend to hide others.

Re:PackagingCon – a conference only for software package man... by chriswarbo on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @06:03AM (#37060574)
> Docker (or container images in general) are great but they solve a limited set of problems well and tend to hide others.

I like container images and runtimes. Docker is awful, and its "inside-out" approach encourages and enforces bad practices.