>> Why bother to put your database inside a container if the way you ran your databases before worked just fine? For the same reason you'd bother putting anyth

>> Why bother to put your database inside a container if the way you ran your databases before worked just fine? For the same reason you'd bother putting anything in a container at all. The purpose of docker -as advertised by docker- is to containerize EVERY service. Unless you can point me to a single mention in official documentation that databases are an exception. Till date, I haven't found any and thus this blog.