HACKER Q&A
📣 ilovecaching

Do you still use Docker?


Specifically talking about the Docker Inc. released Docker. Seems like since they were sold all of their thunder is gone, and they left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths with the moby split. I rarely see big Docker news on HN anymore when it used to be the biggest threads. I'm wondering how many people still use it, or have moved on to using pieces of the Moby and OCI projects standalone, Red Hat's podman, or something else entirely. If you still use Docker I also would like to hear what you think of it in 2022, whether you use Docker Desktop, etc.


  👤 rbanffy Accepted Answer ✓
If you mean Docker Desktop, I still use it, on both Mac and Windows. I don't use it on Linux because it seems pointless. Docker is basic infrastructure - if you need to quickly stand a service, such as a database server, to run some tests, or run some tool (it's a popular way to pack Jupyter, for instance)

👤 leephillips
Maybe not strictly relevant, but I’ll just mention that when I want a container I use systemd nspawn.