On: Docker Considered Harmful (2016)

[SteveNuts]

This feels similar to the infamous HN Comment about Dropbox.

[titanomachy → SteveNuts]

"Why would I ever want to use this easy-to-use technology when I could get exactly the same effect by combining 6 different standard tools with some custom software that I've written using my decades of Linux administration experience?"

[Sohcahtoa82 → SteveNuts]

This one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

[SteveNuts → Sohcahtoa82]

Yes, the comments about how Docker is really just a bunch of tools strung together reeks of the same ignorance.

[greenhouse_gas → Sohcahtoa82]

Just wondering how he must feel now!