I like simplicity.

I never liked using Docker in production but I used to think it was ok for development but with time I started to notice that the complexity I was hiding when configuring a dev environment was coming back to bite me later down the road.

Today, I prefer having all things running locally and I take the time to understand each part of the system and how they fit together. If something is too heavy or messy or something to run on my workstation, I install it on a local server or on a VM on QEMU or VirtualBox.

Also, when I have the choice, I don't use complex build & deploy systems and magical tools anymore. I write my scripts by hand using plain old bash.

Basically, I went back to the way I used to do things before 2014, the year I met Docker 😅

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. - Edsger W. Dijkstra

:)