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The irony here is this is one of the problems docker solves, ie packaging your dependencies with your application ahead of time.

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Yep, even for small personal projects I deploy docker apps via saving an image repository and transferring it to the production server from my laptop. It is so easy to do so I just cannot see justifications for not doing that especially in any kind of commercial deployment.