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Seasoned Developer

Aug 17, 2026

Docker Compose is not designed nor meant for production environments.. Full stop.

These articles are a bit over the top. Use serverless if k8s is too much, but don't resort to vm's and compose. You're asking for trouble.

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she

Aug 18

Agreed, it is not for every production setup. In our case, two VMs were simpler and better suited to our small, predictable workload.

Renny Koshy

Aug 23 (edited)

We've been using docker compose in prod for about 6 years without any issues. It's running our UCaaS, works like a charm.

If you know what you're doing, then depending on the workload, native VMs, docker, etc all make sense. Use the right tool for…

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