[tinco]

Hi, I work at Phusion, the idea of these images is not to run both your app and your database in the same container. We agree that the Docker philosophy would be to run those in separate containers, and link them.

The idea is to make sure your app runs in an environment that's actually a fully functioning valid operating system. This means besides your apps process there's also the supporting processes of the operating system (ubuntu in this case).

This enables for example in-container build scripts and monitoring.

[aidos]

Good to know the use case, thanks. I would still have run the db in a different docker container. Just nice to have a bit more of the os available to your process.

I haven't actually deployed anything with docker yet, just used it on my local machine (so I could run neo4j in isolation). It's a slightly different way of thinking from how we've traditionally managed these things so it's going to take a little time to find the best patterns to work with them. I'm sure some people have already figure it out - I just haven't had the time to dedicate to it yet.