> We are using Debian stable with backports, in production. We started running on Debian Jessie 3.16.7-ckt20-1 (released November 2015). This one suffers from a major critical bug that crashes hosts erratically (every few hours in average).
If you're stuck on an older system that's poorly supported by Docker then it may be a bad choice for you.
Read: Even if Ubuntu 16-LTS and Centos/RHEL 7 may be up to date enough now (not sure), they won't keep up with the latest minor kernel updates and that will become a problem in 6 months when docker 1.1X will require THE newest kernel.
After all, about 1/2 the gripes stemmed from the fact they docker itself is basically the engineering branch minus any serious regression/etc testing. Of course things are going to break from release to release, that is why test departments exist.
Honestly, I liked this article because they had been using Docker for more than just a couple weeks.