Originally published internally 24 Dec 2015:

Install Docker, because it gives you installation superpowers for many other things.

Install Docker, so that you don’t have to install Ansible, or Python, or Golang, or Greylog, or pretty much whatever else you were needing to install.

Install Docker, so that the next Yak you shave will be a pre shaved Yak for somebody else.

Install Docker

Retrospective

This internal post was mostly just a signpost to the public post I wrote that day. We subsequently used Docker as the basis for the ‘infrastructure as code boot camp’ and spent some of the workshops explaining how much time it saved.