Out of the Box Docker

Docker is become an incredibly prevalent tool in the development and operations realms in recent months. Its combination of developer friendly configuration and simple operational management make it a very attractive prospect for companies and teams looking to adopt CI and CD practices.

In most cases, you’ll see Docker used to deploy applications in much the same way as a zip file or virtual machine image. This is certainly the most common use case for Docker, but by no means the extent of its functionality.

In this post I’m going to discuss some of the more interesting problems we’ve used Docker to solve and why it serves as a great solution to them.