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by 23david 4239 days ago
It's great for those nasty legacy apps that only work on old unmaintained versions of Rails or old OS Versions etc.

Take all the nastiness and throw it into a box, without needing to contact Ops to reserve memory and provision a VM.

IMO, it's one of the major reasons why Enterprises get so excited about Docker. Legacy app dependency issues are horrible once you get past a certain scale.

VM's are expensive and non-self-service at most orgs since they tie up RAM and licenses.