To start off this adventure I reiterate that making your applications run in docker everywhere is a good thing. So the process of getting applications in docker is called dockerisation or to dockerise your apps. Or for you other English speakers dockerization and to dockerize. The reason for this is that in principle if you can run docker you can run the application. Now this is where Windows comes in.

What now?! Another abbreviation in this gotta type fast with fewest characters possible but still convey the most information possible? Well for us developers the chance is high that you had to search something with those four chars and an Operating System as the search term.

So why am I a big pro on using Docker or in larger projects/companies even Kubernetes? Well the biggest advantage I see and experience is that you take away dependencies from developers and non developers alike. Can you run Docker, if yes you can run the apps and the database and the frontend. What is left to be done by you? Write the code. That is it.

You manage the dependencies or the dependencies will manage you.

So I had a recent discussion on what dependency management is. It turns out there are a lot of dependencies, or in other words you are dependent on a lot of different things. First we defined what a dependency is. If you like it to a machine then any moving part big or small is a dependency. From the operating system to the version of a library to version of tools being used. As you see that is quite the number of moving parts.