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I'm at the user level of "people keep saying docker... what the fuck is a docker?" -looks it up- "this explains nothing."
Plus, I got lifetime Plex a while back, and can use it to stream videos to my remote classroom for examples in class.
Yeah I understand that. I was also at that level when I started. It did take me a while to understand the docker compose syntax. But was pretty simple once I got into it. I understand not wanting to dive that deep though.
docker means that the software is so brittle that it only works on the developer's machines. So they ship the developer's machine too.
Docker is not a software distribution medium
I can’t tell if you’re being facetious or not. The world runs on containerisation… you can totally package, ship, and run software using docker images.