Yea, Docker is crazy to me. I can never understand people who think it's awesome or something. It's awful.

Of course, if you're doing somethign in Python/Ruby/Node.js then it's useful because these language do not provide a reliable method to compile source code into an independent program/application.

But that does not make it "awesome" or anything. It's just a band-aid. It's an extra layer to hide fundamental design problems.

With Go, the root problem is solved: the language has a compiler that reliably produces statically linked binary executable programs.