[otterley]

If you think you know better, why don't you give everyone a useful, detailed solution, instead of providing curt, unsubstantive, and argumentative responses?

Per the HN Guidelines:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

[digisign]

The technology is well established now. I've noticed a similar kind of solution in the Python community, swatting flies with sledgehammers becomes the norm because modern machines can often take it. Until they can't.

[pjmlp]

Plenty of documentation and books available from decades of software development before Docker became a thing, no need to repeat them.

[otterley]

That's not a solution. Telling people to go look things up themselves in some unspecified place and devise their own solutions is pretty much a giant middle finger to this community (and is still against the HN rule against shallow dismissals). It also does nothing to persuade anyone that you actually know what you're talking about, as opposed to someone who just makes shallow criticisms to scoop up HN points.

[digisign]

You sound entitled.

It's not hard to imagine that using a big container solution designed for another operating system (and performance hit) is not the most elegant solution here. Especially when the alternative is an environment variable and zip file you already mentioned yourself. There is no step three.