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		danbeaulieu on May 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introduction to Containerization Think about using containers if any of the below apply: - You have heard or said the words "Hmm, it worked on my machine" - You run or want to run multiple applications on the same host - You care about software supply chain - You think serverless patterns may apply to your workloads - Scheduling applications on to your infrastructure is manual

defen on May 10, 2019 [–]

> - You have heard or said the words "Hmm, it worked on my machine"

I currently use VirtualBox + SaltStack to solve this problem, which has worked well and has significantly less overhead than going full Docker / K8s

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