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B. Imho docker is a trap. It makes you think it simplifies things because the initial install is quick. But everything that comes next is unnecessarily complex.

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I'm often suspicious of Docker. It seems we keep solving the "containerization" problem over and over with virtual machines, containers, etc., and this makes me think we're going about software in the wrong way.

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I run everything in docker. It simplifies dependencies, network security, and most importantly versioning. imo docker and kubernetes are the only virtualization that still have a good reason to exist. With docker + caddy (which itself is running in docker, with a docker plugin for automatic reverse...

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I wasn't really suggesting Docker shouldn't be used. More speculating that if the problem of containers were to be solved further up the stack Docker wouldn't even be necessary.