Docker for windows; crashing, or loosing connection to mobylinux, constantly needing to give permissions (windows sign in) to allow access to mounted volumes. Ergo lots of turn it off and on again style fixes, including windows reboot to get it going again.

Total garbage.

Since mobylinux is a vm in windows hypervisor, we moved to a Ubuntu vm, running LXD, an then proper lxc containers. Removing docker from the equation from our developer and production environments. No more issues because we don’t use docker.

I agree with the "Docker on Windows" thing. It is just a waste of time. If you install Ubuntu in a VM, then run Docker in that, things go so much smoother. "Docker on Windows" is just another way that Docker damages its own brand.

Another trouble I have with Docker is that it seems to be a way to make a small change to a file burn 5 GB on disk, network downloads, etc because you can't compose arbitrary layers. If you need to update an early layer you need to update all the layers on top.

I was shocked when I realized it was that bad but I think the overlay file system is hard from an operating systems perspective. I guess I should have realized that having so many overlay fs implementations mean the number of good implementations is zero.

You really should be able to install rpm/deb software packages just by putting in the appropriate layers.

I guess cloud providers like it for the same reason Sun liked 2-byte chars in Java.

Long before many Docker users were born I would get hundreds of web sites running on a server with a 2-second deploy time. It's almost a secret that if you can configure: (1) the place to put files, and (2) the database connection you can host a large number of web apps on one machine. I've set up servers that have cruised with 200+ web sites with no maintainance.

I think Docker has taken advantage of people who don't have much experience and don't realize how easy it can be if you have discipline.