Docker is the dangerous gamble which we will regret

ARANK

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.comSummary: don’t use Docker, or any other container technology. Use Terraform and Packer instead. It’s one less level of virtualization, and therefore one less level of complexity.There is perhaps one good argument for using Docker. It is hidden by the many bad arguments for using Docker. I’m going to try to explain why so much Docker rhetoric is stupid, and then look at what reason might be good.But I guess I am lucky because so far I have not gotten a reaction as angry as whatThe HFT Guyhad to face when he talked about his own failed attempt to use Docker in production at the financial firm where he works:I received a quite insulting email from a guy who is clearly in the amateur league to say that “any idiot can run Docker on Ubuntu” then proceed to give a list of software packages and advanced system tweaks that are mandatory to run Docker on Ubuntu, that …