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So! I can see two potential use cases for Docker for me: development and deployment. In both cases, not having to deal with my distro's packages to get what I need to run the program just seems REALLY convenient.

I don't really understand the tradeoffs though. Does anyone know what the biggest downsides to look out for are?

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@socks a downside is that you have to build a new container to update system packages in case there is a vulnerability instead of just updating the host

re: Tech question 

@noiob I see I see! That seems like LESS of a hassle honestly but I can see it being error prone

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@socks ideally you'd have CI set up that automatically builds containers from your repo

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