[njovin]

You can have a a ~20 line docker-compose.yml file that only requires you to `docker compose up` and you're up and running. It's gotten insanely easy to run php-fpm + nginx + [whateverdb] in a set of docker services that require virtually no configuration.

[troupo]

And who is going to write that ~20 line compose file with "no configuration"? A newbie?

[wruza]

An LLM of course. They are really good at “trivial but you have to find a good tutorial” types of work.

[cess11]

When you're configuring Internet facing Linux services you're kind of out of the newbie area.

A newbie is more likely to use the built-in development server and then SFTP a 'git archive' to a shared host.

[troupo]

The original comment was about newbies. Everyone is a newbie at one point.

Just last year I tried a blog engine written in PHP. 24 years programming experience, but I haven't touched PHP for 10 years, and I haven't touched configuring it for 15+ years.

It took me half a day to make it work.

[cess11]

What blog engine? Usually with PHP applications you clone the repo, copy .env boilerplate, enter database credentials, run Composer to fetch dependencies and do some setup tasks, then boot the application.

[troupo]

I really wish people would maintain conversation context for at more than a single reply.