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If you want to deploy it in an environment that is already running some kind of container orchestration it may actually be simpler to just add another container, compared to adding another host service you need to care about. Sure, you wouldn’t want to install docker, or podman or nomad (+ one of those) or k8s (lol…) to run a redbean. But the other way around might make sense.

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But why use redbean for that, and not nginx?

The point of redbean is to be CPU- and OS-agnostic. Containers are CPU- and OS-specific.

Because it's an application platform, you make apps with it in Lua. I think there's even a full framework for it now.

This is why I mentioned nginx: it's also an application platform programmable in Lua.

I don't get it. What's the problem?

Docker is more than just application containerization, it also lets you infra as code to some degree. You can specify where and how files are organised. It turns a git repo into something consistently runnable with the same commands as every other repo you may maintain.

There's value in that.

This is just gatekeeping.

No gatekeeping: it's free software, anybody can experiment with it as they please.

But the irony of the situation is still there.

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