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by a-saleh 3859 days ago
I think it will take a long time before we wouldn't need these configuration automation tools at all just because of containers. Yes, even if you are really happy with docker, you will probably use something else to bootstrap the host. For example, Openshift 3 that works mostly as a Docker host, is installed by Ansible.

First, Docker seems to be still quite a young technology, and you will probably need some sort of orchestration on top of it.

Depending on what would you need to solve, ansible scripts might be order of magnitude simpler.

In some instances you won't be able to replace your ansible (or chef) scripts \w docke no matter how hard you try (i.e, we have iOS build farm on OS X servers, and we are attempting to build some windows selenium grid nodes, e.t.c)

On the other side of this spectrum, there still might be many thins where you are better of using Heroku, or some other battle-tested paas.