Let me try something different … PaaS is underrated and a better set of abstractions for most developers to work with than Docker. Discuss.
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@ewolff it depends (as always). For 12 factor apps, you may be right. But not for clustered apps or non http protocols.
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I still think it's early days for PaaS...
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IMHO the momentum of Docker is larger than PaaS i.e. unlikely PaaS will win. Which I don't really understand BTW.
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that makes two of us
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Replying to @simonbrown @ewolff @n1ko_w1ll
Docker is supported by multiple platforms, weirdly making it the closest to a portable “standard” we have

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Replying to @stilkov @simonbrown @ewolff @n1ko_w1ll
A case of “worse is better” if there ever was one, by the way
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early J2EE, for all its faults, encouraged a separation between apps and environment. Docker reverses this.
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Replying to @stilkov @simonbrown @n1ko_w1ll
? Docker=Linux Windows Docker=Windows And then there are BSD Jails, Solaris Zones - all incompatible.
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Sure, but who cares about anything but Linux these days?
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Replying to @stilkov @simonbrown @ewolff
however, most only support deployment of single containers, not a whole application composed of many containers