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by amzans 590 days ago
Technically, it’s not much different from using Ansible to run Docker on remote hosts.

What it provides is a set of conventions based on what most web apps look like.

Eg. built-in proxy with automatic TLS and zero downtime deployments, first-class support for a DB and cache, encrypted secrets, etc.

It’s definitely not for every use case, but for your typical 3-tier monolith on a handful of servers I found it does the job well.