What you are saying is actual complexity. A box can be a machine instead of cont...

jve · on July 6, 2022

Perhaps, if we talk about deployent.

Howevre looking at the whole chain of process:

I can deploy service/app on my local machine, including dependencies, along with other independent services/apps.

So, I can reuse what I have for production. But ofcourse, local development stuff will have different env variables, some docker-compose etc.

But it is a joy, when you can:

1. git clone something

2. set some env variables

3. docker-compose up -d

And your app, along with database, elasticsearch, whatnot - is running

So for development purposes it really helps. For deployment purposes - if that box is dedicated to something, then yeah, many of the good use cases not necessary.

solarkraft · on July 6, 2022

Having all of your services in the same box opens you up to a ton of possible unwanted cross-interaction, which is complexity.

(just not from the system perspective, but from the "reasoning about it" perspective)