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Re:Docker Raises $95M Series D Round for Its Container Platform by vacri on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @08:48AM (#9373753)
Compared to VMs we adopted a lot more of a "this is disposable" mindset

There is nothing particularly magical about Docker that means you can't consider VMs equally as disposable. It's a mindset change about how you build your product, not something inherent to Docker. It's the original concept behind AWS's EC2 - treat your VMs as disposable, and store state elsewhere.

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Re:Docker Raises $95M Series D Round for Its Container Platform by Huggernaut on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @09:32AM (#9374056)
You are correct of course but in my experience with Docker so far, it's much easier to get into this mindset, the more ephemeral your "disposable unit" is insomuch as VMs tend to stick around longer than Docker containers and occasionally you might find yourself saying, "this is ok for now" but your barrier for that is higher if you have to deal with things more often in flux.
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