I went ahead and blogged an answer here: http://blog.tfnico.com/2015/07/the-sweet-spot-of-docker.html http://blog.tfnico.com/2015/07/the-sweet-spot-of-docker.ht

I went ahead and blogged an answer here: http://blog.tfnico.com/2015/07/the-sweet-spot-of-docker.html http://blog.tfnico.com/2015/07/the-sweet-spot-of-docker.html TL;DR: It's better for deploying applications and running them than using home-made scripts.