4d ago

What is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry?

Every industry is full of technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?

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Not everything needs to be deployed to a cluster of georedundant K8s nodes, not everything needs to be a container, Docker is not always necessary. Just run the damn binary. Just build a .deb package.
(Disclaimer: yes, all those things can have merit and reasons. Doesn't mean you have to shove them into everything.)
- But then how will I ship my machine seeing as it works for me?
  
  Damn, I haven't thought of that! Looks like I have to use a subdirectory of your Homedir from now on.
  
  Just symlink my home folder to your PC and we are good to go.
  
  Genius!
  
  I see you are well-versed in the ways of Citrix.
- Docker is the source of my secret nerd shame lol. I feel like I'm reasonably competent with computers - I'm no pro but I can install and setup Arch (BTW) without using Archinstall and stuff like that. But I just don't understand Docker. I've read so many ELI5 guides and I understand in a really general way what it's meant to do, but I just... cannot picture in my head what it's doing. I don't even know where it is on my machine! But I still have two apps that I run in Docker. They just... exist somewhere and if they ever break I'm lost.
  
  That makes two of us. I’m in IT rather than development but I deploy VMs and containers semi regularly at work and at home. Docker seems to be designed to be an ephemeral isolated environment for repeatable testing, but oh so many server applications are distributed primarily as docker images.
  
  You might find LXD more straightforward. I think docker was first and foremost a development platform, not meant for deploying production appliances. That's why there's this nonsense about persistent volumes. If it were designed from the ground up to be a turnkey appliance platform you wouldn't need to mess around with that stuff because of course you want your filesystem to be persistent between reboots in a production environment.

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