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by robertlagrant 1705 days ago
> For example, if you're a golang shop you can run everything as native binaries and cut out docker completely.

Ironically you can also just deploy a go executable into an empty Docker container and it's basically the same as the raw executable, but with all the config abstracted to be the same as other containers'.

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Good point! Although Docker does add a networking layer on top. I'd prefer to run something like HAProxy without Docker if possible.
You can run it on the host network as well.
Adding the networking layer is a good thing since it's centrally managed