Docker has been a game changer for how we manage and deploy our applications. Once it's set up properly, it removes so many of the "it works on my machine" issues by letting everyone run code in the exact same environment. We've used it heavily for app development and microservices testing across different operating systems, and the consistency it provides is unmatched. Using Docker with Kubernetes is like the cherry on top. Orchestrating the containers to scale up with K8 Pods is the biggest upgrade we could've done to our infrastructure for high traffic, high availability applications.

Docker is so poorly constructed that pruning, completely destroying and restarting, are common practice. If there are leftover hidden containers still running after i shut down docker, it means docker is not programmed well enough to shut it down by itself. Ive used Docker for 6 years and the biggest experience i gather from my colleagues are that it breaks all the time and i need to hard reset. Why is this an accepted solution? Maybe there is nothing better than Docker but any other software that needs hard resets after certain uses, we would consider a poorly programmed software; why does Docker get a pass?