The finance company I work at has historically been copying jars and booting them up with some scripts. Servers all bare metal and some tuned for performance. We have a lot of pet servers as different users needed different tools and asked a sysadmin to install it.
We’re now heavily moving towards containers and the primary motivator is choice of languages and standardisation. Being bare metal is fine when you use a single language, but you’ll find you shoehorn other languages with the same process. Interpreted languages (Node/Python) are a nightmare and you’ll have to find a pattern for running multiple versions on the same host.
Containers is just a real nice deployment unit and is well supported by other tools.
If you are really keen on this path, do consider up front how you will handle version upgrades of the runtime or dependencies.
We’re now heavily moving towards containers and the primary motivator is choice of languages and standardisation. Being bare metal is fine when you use a single language, but you’ll find you shoehorn other languages with the same process. Interpreted languages (Node/Python) are a nightmare and you’ll have to find a pattern for running multiple versions on the same host.
Containers is just a real nice deployment unit and is well supported by other tools.
If you are really keen on this path, do consider up front how you will handle version upgrades of the runtime or dependencies.