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by agnivade 3888 days ago
>Avoid as the plague, Docker, unless you know why you needed it.

Just wanted to add something here. Docker is great when you dont want to do setup work for a service or install unwanted software on your machine when you know it will only be used by that app. For eg - if your app used redis, you can just start a redis instance with 2 docker commands. Rather than downloading and installing it on your system.

You do not always need to dockerise your apps, you can use docker containers for dependencies too. I find it pretty nice.