I quite like Docker. It solves the "it works on my machine" problem by being reproducible-enough. And I can still run it locally.
My argument is not against innovation but against mindshare capture by platform capitalism.
My argument is not against innovation but against mindshare capture by platform capitalism.
Deploying using Docker containers means hosting multiple nested operating systems on multiple separate hardware, and then trying to coordinate them, when you most likely actually want them living on the same machine sharing the same loop back interface (like you have during development) or on the same physical or at least logical network with a hardware firewall between them. Instead, when you deploy Docker containers to the cloud, they are on different machines (often in different data centers) connected only by a VPC with only primitive software firewalling and no way to monitor the traffic.
Docker is meant to run isolated systems together, to share resources. You get none of that benefit. But the hosting provider does, at your cost.