[ktosobcy]

> Modern "containers" were invented to make things more reproducible ( check ) and simplify dev and deployments ( NOT check ).

Why?

I have my RPi4 and absolutely love docker(-compose) - deploying stuff/services on in it just a breeze compared to previous clusterf*k of relying on system repository for apps (or if something doesnt work)... with docker compose I have nicely separated services with dedicated databases in required version (yes, I ran into an issue that one service required newer and another older version of the database, meh)

As for development - I do development natively but again - docker makes it easier to test various scenarios...

[skydhash]

I’ve been using LXC/Incus as lightweight VMs (my home server is an old mac mini) and I think too many software is over reliant on Docker. It’s very much “ship your computer” with a bunch of odd scripts in addition to the Dockerfiles.

[ktosobcy]

Could you elaborate the "ship your computer"? Majority of the images are base OS (which is as lean as possible) and then just the app...

To that end, full blown VM seems even more "ship your computer" thing?

Btw. isn't LXC base for the Docker as well? It looks somewhat similar to docker and podman?