Why Docker is Awesome

Andrew Courter
Level Up Coding
Published in
3 min readOct 5, 2022

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Want to run some software on your machine but don’t want to download every dependency? Docker has changed the way software is developed and deployed and allows small containers to run on almost any machine.

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  • Run almost any software with very few commands and a small amount of time

Run a couple different data stores easily (RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MySQL). You can test multiple databases out without…

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