Containers Are Contagious and Often Misused

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2021-05-28 13:30:06

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Let’s get something straight right at the beginning — this article is not to argue that containers are bad, containers are certainly one of many great options developers have in their hands today. This article is also not scoped at the pros/cons of containers, my intent is just to present the developers and dev leads with some considerations around containers that I believe should be on the table when containers are discussed.

If these points are old news to you that is great, otherwise I’m afraid you’re still living in 2010 when containers were the only viable solution for many issues and long-term symptoms didn’t show up yet. If this is the case it’s fine, I trust you have it in you to be open-minded to what is coming.

Ten years ago it was the dream of every developer to pull a code from a repo and hit F5 to run it without running into some dependency issue that broke the build; deploying the code to new environments was cumbersome and error-prone. containers are excellent at resolving these challenges but are not the only option in 2021.