🔗 Stop Using Docker Like It's 2015

Docker has grown up. Have you?

Back in 2015, Docker was shiny and new. You probably ran your first container with something like:

docker run -it ubuntu bash

You felt powerful. You installed Vim inside the container. Maybe even Node.js. You didn't use a .dockerignore. You ran everything as root. You thought you were deploying containers, but really, you were just spinning up a weird kind of VM.

Fast forward to 2025: that same approach is holding you back. Docker today is a fast, composable, production-grade tool - if you actually use it right.

Let's talk about the habits that need to die, and how to do things the 2025 way.