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0 pointssfilipov11y ago0 comments

I'd bet on homegrown - the quality of the official docker images is pretty low when comes to applications ones. Images for OSes are fine. Applications images are often not updated when a new version of the applications is available until you send a pull request on github. I can do better than that myself.

Also, official images are not production ready, they are apparently intended for development purposes. Take the Django image as an example. The server it runs on start is not Gunicorn, or uWSGI, or Apache. It is the development server of Django. I can do better than that myself.

I don't think that is a problem with Docker - the application. If Docker - the company - does not have the resources to properly maintain so many official images then it shouldn't try to.

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vidarh11y ago

Given how hard it is to find hires - that comes from good development jobs elsewhere - that understands even the very basics of security, I think you're being overly influenced by your own skills.

You may very well do better than that yourself. I don't doubt that large proportions of HN users would do better.

But how many will?

Consider that the quality of the official docker images is an illustration of the quality of images from people who are above average invested in this.

Look at some of the unofficial images, and you will find incredible dreck very quickly.

Now imagine the set of users of images that have not even tried to build their own images yet, and imagine they were asked to put together their own replacements for the official images to use...

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