For developers, containers are often introduced as a local testing tool, creating third party application components locally, rather than configuring a shared test platform. Docker is great for local testing, but there are other benefits for developers, including faster developer on-boarding, leveraging the immutable server pattern (eliminating the "works on my machine" situation), full stack local testing, and fast/efficient cluster-based integration testing.
Pilot application development with Docker Enterprise
Using Docker for faster developer on-boarding
Docker supports faster developer on-boarding; developers only need to install Docker and everything else can run in (isolated) containers. While some developers...