Introduction
If you love Ruby on Rails, you’re going to love Docker. They are kindred spirits, born out of similar ideals.
For me, the allure of Rails was its Big Ideas: generators, migrations, testing as a first-class citizen, convention over configuration, multi-environment setups built in, live-code reloading. While, individually, these features may not have been new, the combination made Rails more than the sum of its parts: it gave us superpowers.
Docker is doing for DevOps what Rails did for web development. It too is packed with Big Ideas: a holistic view of your app (hint: your app is more than just your Rails code), containerization (lighter-weight, faster, and more efficient than VMs), software delivery that doesn’t suck (for example, ...
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