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Quick Docker Review
January 30, 2018

Quick Docker Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Docker

Docker is used across our whole engineering organization in order to have a consistent dev environment for local testing. We also use Docker for our microservices on Rancher. Docker is extremely useful as we can easily spin up any sort of environment we want and create/test new features. The use of Docker also helps prevent those "it work on my computer" type of issues.
  • Flexibility
  • Ease of Use
  • Very powerful
  • Can be seen as a black box
  • Hard to debug if unfamiliar with it
  • Semi-steep learning curve
  • Quick local environment setup, just pull the images and run
  • People can blame docker if they don't understand what is going wrong in their environment
  • Easy microservice deploys
Docker is well suited if you want to test new technologies or just having a consistent test environment across different machines. Docker also allows you to easily share your current local environment with anyone else regardless of their system. One drawback of Docker is the need to learn some of the quirks such as learning how to map ports and IPs to be accessible from your local machine. In the case where you don't need a strict environment control and only need to do some quick tests, docker can be overkill.