jamesmaniscalco

When you spin up a new project, how far do you go into containerization and similar abstraction before you actually start writing code?

I am planning on starting a new Django app after a few years out of "the game". The last sites I worked on were Rails and Django projects deployed on Heroku back in about 2014, before Docker took off. Now in 2020, I have a sense that I "should" be using Docker or Kubernetes in my deployment scheme, but I'm not sure how much I should worry about containerization before I start writing code. I would like to get started on the codebase quickly, but I also don't want to incur the technical debt of a containerization retrofit.

So, HN readers, when do you containerize a new project?