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Docker is such a mess.<p>As a tool for building containers its cumbersome, has bizarre and frustrating limitations and has issues that haven’t been addressed in years. You can’t use semver for tags, it eats up all your disk space and you have to manually GC it, etc… Multi-build support is basically useless and invariably you end up writing convoluted bash scripts to get the thing to work.<p>Caching is terrible pretty much across the board. How many petabytes of data are wasted every day re-syncing apt-get?<p>As a runtime engine its basically dead for production use. If you ever try to use it you’ll quickly discover that it has tons of problems. It locks up, orphans processes, stops responding to commands, forgets about containers, etc. And its not safe to run arbitrary containers. You’d be surprised by how many companies using Kubernetes gave up using docker a long time ago.<p>Please save yourself a lot of heartache and just use containerd.<p>As a concept, containers never really lived up to their potential. &quot;A Docker container image is a lightweight, standalone, executable package of software that includes everything needed to run an application.&quot; As long as that application runs in linux.<p>As a company Docker is a failure. All their cloud stuff is clunky, poorly thought out and at this point largely irrelevent. I&#x27;ll be surprised if it will last 5 years. Kubernetes won. Those cute, cuddly characters and the Docker name are basically all they have going for them, and all these things, the Moby rename, the requiring login to download, etc... are the death throes of a dying company. Docker is the next jQuery.<p>People don&#x27;t realize just how easy all this stuff will be to replace. Google already did it. Like 5 times. (gVisor, jib, kaniko, ...) It was probably some intern&#x27;s side project.<p>Microsoft should just get it over with and acquire the company. It would be the perfect cherry on top to their Github cake.