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by PeterisP 2474 days ago
Deployment and transfer of environments between people.

Using docker images means that we can take the thing that developer A built and that "runs on their machine" (without necessarily having that developer on hand) and have developer B easily launch it on their machine without having any dependency or isolation or reproducibility issues, and after making some trivial changes put it in a new, fresh production server without having to ask the original dev how it was/should be configured.

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We do that with VM images, WAR/EAR, RPM, NuGET, MSI packages.