For this reason I’ve been dockerizing my builds for almost five years. I was late to the Docker party, but when I saw the benefits it brings to build pipelines, I was sold.
It's true that a dockerized build isn’t any simpler than its non-dockerized ancestor, but at least there’s a Dockerfile that lays bare all the black magic and special sauce which goes into each build. And it can be version controlled to watch for drift over time.
This stuff is useful in a corporate setting, but the other fetishization of reproducible builds is just a distraction that can stay where it belongs: open source mailing lists.
It's true that a dockerized build isn’t any simpler than its non-dockerized ancestor, but at least there’s a Dockerfile that lays bare all the black magic and special sauce which goes into each build. And it can be version controlled to watch for drift over time.
This stuff is useful in a corporate setting, but the other fetishization of reproducible builds is just a distraction that can stay where it belongs: open source mailing lists.