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    Next evolution, just a one line bash script.

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    yes very much agreed on this. docker is awesome but imo the reliance on it will absolutely cause issues down the line

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Sorry but IMO that’s FUD.

    The reliance on it legitimately prevents the issues that it’s likely to cause. It’s made to be both idempotent and ephemeral.

    Give an example of a Python project. You make a venv and do all your work in there. You then generate a requirements with all the versions pinned. You start build a container on a pinned version of alpine, or Ubuntu, or w/e. Wherever possible, you are pinning versions.

    With best practices applied, result is that the image will be functionally the same regardless of what system builds it, though normally it gets built and stored on a registry like Docker Hub.

    The only chance a user has to screw things up is in setting environment variables. That’s no different than ever before. At least now, they don’t have to worry about system or language-level dependencies introducing a breaking change.