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by spadufed 920 days ago
That's because it's a pretty silly way to look at things in a world of docker compose.
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Classic. Tools become too abstracted? Add a layer of abstraction to manage them.

Feel like there must be an xkcd comic on this, but it doesn't leap to mind yet.

Software becomes so complex that it becomes vulnerable. Add more code, i.e., more complexity, to "fix" the problems.
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I mean, asking them to plop their cli docker setup into a yaml file isn't exactly a difficult task. I think it's probably more correct to consider docker-compose an integral part of docker rather than a superfluous abstraction layer.
This one comes to mind immediately: https://xkcd.com/927/
I would propose this one: https://xkcd.com/2347/
Surely it should be this one?

https://xkcd.com/1988/

Or maybe this one:

https://xkcd.com/1579/

Or possibly the last panel of this one:

https://xkcd.com/1718/

Or this one…

https://xkcd.com/1764/

…Or this one:

https://xkcd.com/2021/