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Wowww: https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io/issues/6910#issue...

What the hell does "Docker's new direction to go back to its roots and focus on developer tooling" even mean? Docker is developer tooling, that's the whole product. That's not "going back to your roots" that's just doing your damn job.

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I wrote that comment at the time; to add some context to that comment: removal of the "login to download" was shortly after the "Docker Enterprise" business went to Mirantis. While Docker started as a developer centric tool, focus shifted to Enterprise products (Docker Enterprise Engine, UCP, Docker Trusted Registry, Docker Desktop Enterprise). After the move of the enterprise products to Mirantis, Docker's focus went back to developer products.

Yeah, a lot of times they don't seem to understand that their core product is "you can run this command, and the virtual machine will work on any system that runs Docker, limited only by resource availability".

Heck within the first few weeks of dockerizing our system at a startup (c. 2015), they introduced a backward-incompatible change to docker-compose that we only found when onboarding new employees -- the exact thing it's supposed to be for!

Is it developer tooling or deployment tooling?

I think part of Docker’s value proposition is that it’s both.

Oh my I had no idea they actually fixed it! Crazy it took 2 years, but at least they finally did!

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