It sounds good, but Docker is also good for all sorts of other patterns too.
For instance: Docker is great for local development that never touches prod.
Docker is great for hybrid local dev, where you run some services in docker but not others.
If your desktop is Linux and you are building python based web services, then running python in a virtualenv is often much more responsive than having to rebuild some docker thing.
You don't have to rebuild docker things that often. One can mount the local source directory into a container, then one has a relatively well defined (docker containers aren't reproducible builds themselves) runtimes environment (python version, global packages etc.) while editing happens outside the container. Especially useful if one switches between versions etc. regularly.
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It sounds good, but Docker is also good for all sorts of other patterns too.
For instance: Docker is great for local development that never touches prod.
Docker is great for hybrid local dev, where you run some services in docker but not others.
If your desktop is Linux and you are building python based web services, then running python in a virtualenv is often much more responsive than having to rebuild some docker thing.
You don't have to rebuild docker things that often. One can mount the local source directory into a container, then one has a relatively well defined (docker containers aren't reproducible builds themselves) runtimes environment (python version, global packages etc.) while editing happens outside the container. Especially useful if one switches between versions etc. regularly.