alt Hacker NewsI need clarifications.
I see docker as a way to avoid having a standard dev platform for everyone in the company so that the infra team don't have to worry about patch xyz for library abc, only run docker.
But, with all the effort put in place to coordinate docker, k8s and all the shebang, isn't it finally easier to force a platform and let it slowly evolve over time?
Is docker another technical tool that tries to solve a non-technical problem?
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whycombinetor • yesterday at 6:11 PM
Porque no los dos. Force a platform. Deploy non containerized. Build a dockerized version of the forced platform for cross-platform local dev.
esafak • yesterday at 6:15 PM
I do not follow you. Every app has different needs. Containers encode them in a shareable way. You can evolve the image over time. So what more do you want?
Docker is a solution to one specific problem: the need for "a user" to run 10 different potentially conflicting apps, all at the same time, on one machine, and abstract away anything which might make those apps conflict if they ran on a single OS. It provides a dozen different solutions in one package.
K8s is a way to take that and make it scale up for a large number of applications on a large number of hosts in a production business in a way that's automated and resilient to failure.