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		davexunit on July 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What is the actual purpose of Docker? >Especially compared to ansible's YAML/jinja2 configuration. YAML/jinja2 is just terrible. When you have to introduce a templating system to programmatically generate your YAML configuration files, what you have really needed the whole time is an actual programming language.

crdoconnor on July 8, 2015 [–]

It's a non-turing complete programming language much like excel spreadsheets are non turing complete programming languages.

Taking out the turing completeness restricts the mess which you can make and lets non-programmers do more while still being customizable.

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