Discussion on: What problems does Docker really solve? 🐳

[Thorsten Hirsch]

Developers benefit from Docker, yes. But when you think of the process of going into production, Docker is a real game changer:

• standardised packaging of software including all dependencies (docker images)
• standardised configuration (environment variables)
• standardised monitoring (container's stdout)
• standardised scalability (more containers)
• standardised error-handling (well, sort of, sometimes restarting a container helps)
• explicit distinction between stateless (app container) and stateful parts (volumes, db containers, ...)

Finally the handover from Dev to Ops doesn't have to be a pain anymore.