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<div data-externalstyle="false" dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif';font-size:12pt;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">We are heavily using Docker as a development platform for an extremely complex project (180,000 lines of python, 10 developers, complex system requirements). For that, it is ideal, </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">but </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">a) avoid boot2docker for Windows…. just run it in Linux… we learned to do that eventually. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">b) it takes significant time to make a container work perfectly… and it’s worth it. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">We are not using Docker in production; we use it to make exact clones of development </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">environments. This is not a trivial task; we have one person who spends a considerable amount of time rolling out changes and keeping the development containers running. <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;" data-signatureblock="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">Alva L. Couch<br>Assoc. Prof. of Computer Science<br>Tufts University<br>Medford, MA 02155</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><br></div></div></div>
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