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He says "docker, just plain docker" but in reality uses docker-compose - in my view a significant addition.

However it aligns well with my own sentiments - for anything below large scale complexity or scalability needs, docker-compose hits a beautiful simplicity vs power tradeoff.

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Also, does this becoming accepted bother anyone else?

"curl -s https://get.docker.com | sudo bash"

You can also just ignore that and get Docker from your package manager. At least on Debian it's in the official APT repositories and Docker.com hosts one as well.

The version in the official OS-provided repository is often very old, even obsolete. But yeah, just use the Docker provided repository instead, that gets you updates afterwards.

I disagree, docker-compose is just a wrapper around docker. It is in fact just a python package.

The daemon itself is just plain docker.

Well, I guess it's subjective - but if you didn't have docker-compose I would have a whole lot more questions about how you are managing all the running services, storing configuration, defining networks, monitoring health of containers, defining volumes, port mappings etc etc. It may be "just a python package" but so is Django and docker is "just a go package" :-)

Man, you just put another 5 things on my list to write up! thank you

I like docker compose but what's friendly for using it server side and not relatively manual?

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