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by est 3014 days ago
but why?

The whole point of containers is that they are ephemeral and can be booted up quickly anywhere because you statically link the whole fucking OS?

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The APIs of platforms are often totally different. If you went to docker cloud for its simplicity and now have to move to AWS/GCP/Azure/etc. and don't have a dedicated DevOps that knows one of those platforms already, you have no choice other than taking a developer working on features and putting them on learning the new API in a few weeks including testing. ~8 weeks is not enough for that if you are a cash-strapped startup.
Such are the perils of using immature tools in your development chain and production systems.