Painless desktop containers for everyday development
I don&#x27;t see the point of evading Dockerfiles. All of these customizations to me seem like they&#x27;re just doing what you would do in a Dockerfile for creating a base image, but in a non-friendly way for people not using Dock.<p>From reading, there seems to be planned support for VMs, which is where the mental click is for evading dockerfiles to me, but when creating VMs you have the same thing. The equivalent (in my mind) of this for VMs exists as Multipass, where you pass a cloud-init file for configuration.<p>I think it&#x27;s cool for playing, but if I could create a Dockerfile in the directory of the project, as simple as &quot;FROM ubuntu:latest&quot; and when I run Dock it takes this Dockerfile and then builds a new image ontop of it (with all these customizations, dropping me into a shell) <i>that</i> is where this would shine to me. It may just be a workflow thing, but if I am building a container, I am already building Dockerfiles. They&#x27;re not <i>just</i> for Docker, many many tools use them for containers more generically.<p>The <i>painful</i> part when building a container is when I am doing something decently involved (e.g. implementing a proprietary software daemon &amp; driver for a German camera manufacturer that has to have custom udev rules and many, many customizations,) and just want to extend my natural terminal environment into that space to explore what&#x27;s up. Then when I am done, I should be able to run docker build and get the clean, bare container. It&#x27;s very rare that I just need an arbitrary container that will go away when working on a <i>project.</i> Periodically I may generate an ubuntu pod or something, but it goes away fast and generally lives for less than 10 commands.<p>With that being said, I don&#x27;t mean to poo-poo, as I do <i>really</i> like the aesthetic, the documentation is beautiful, and the thought put into it. I just don&#x27;t see where it fits into my (or many people I know)&#x27;s workflow pretty much strictly because of the Dockerfile thing. Some of the other tools look cool though, so I threw a buck or two in the hat :)