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I'm going to confess something: I still do it oldschool. A single box with a SQL server and a webserver running on it. I've taken courses in Docker and whatnot but never applied them.

When you're hosting a single-node cluster, what value do these docker-based tools offer? Is it the fact that you can use a dockerfile to declare your OS-level dependencies consistently?



Yes, cattle not pets, and portability.


But does the underlying server itself that's hosting the docker node not become a "pet", even if it hosts the "cow"?


There are specialized container OS hosts or ansible type updaters for wrangling traditional servers.




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